Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)
This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.
Director: Miklós Jancsó
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Zoltán Mucsi as Kapa |
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Péter Scherer as Pepe |
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Ildikó Tóth as Russian Girl |
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Miklós Jancsó as Miklós Jancsó |
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Gyula Hernádi as Gyula Hernádi |
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Judit Schell as German Officer |
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István Márton as Pista |
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Balázs Galkó as Galkó |
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Béla Fesztbaum as Béla |
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Emese Vasvári as Emese |
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Székely B. Miklós as Old Hungarian Soldier |
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András Hajós as Talent Scout |
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András Lovasi as Himself |
| Writing | Miklós Jancsó | Writer |
| Sound | Kispál és a Borz | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Burzsoá Nyugdíjasok | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Bëlga | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Gyula Hernádi | Writer |
| Editing | Zsuzsa Csákány | Editor |
| Directing | Miklós Jancsó | Director |
| Camera | Ferenc Grunwalsky | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Ferenc Grunwalsky | Writer |
| Art | Tamás Banovich | Production Design |
| Production | András Ozorai | Production Manager |
| Production | András Ozorai | Producer |
