The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)
In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.
Director: Miklós Jancsó
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Zoltán Mucsi as Kapa |
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Péter Scherer as Pepe |
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József Szarvas as Józsi |
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Miklós Jancsó as Himself |
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Gyula Hernádi as Himself |
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Emese Vasvári as Emese |
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Zsolt Kovács as Zsolti |
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György Fehér as György |
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József Böjte as Józsi bácsi |
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Csoma Judit as Judit |
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Zsolt Anger as Anger |
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István Márton as Pista / Cemetery director |
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Balázs Galkó as Galkó |
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Szonja Oroszlán as Interpreter |
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Virág Csapó as Enikő |
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András Lovasi as The singer |
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Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta as Self |
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György Ferenczi as Gyuri |
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Juhász Jácint as |
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Mihály Szabados as |
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Attila Rácz as |
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Ferenc Novák as |
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Andrea Ladányi as |
| Production | József Böjte | Producer |
| Writing | Ferenc Grunwalsky | Writer |
| Art | Tamás Banovich | Production Design |
| Directing | Miklós Jancsó | Director |
| Sound | György Ránki | Additional Soundtrack |
| Editing | Zsuzsa Csákány | Editor |
| Sound | György Ferenczi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Miklós Jancsó | Writer |
| Writing | Gyula Hernádi | Writer |
| Camera | Ferenc Grunwalsky | Director of Photography |