General Information

Original Title

A nagy generáció

Author/Creator

András, Ferenc, director.

Language

Hungarian.

Subtitles

English

Published

Hungary, 1985.

Physical Description

VHS (109 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This award-winning film is a commentary on the nature of the older and younger generations in Hungary during the mid-'80s. Réb (György Cserhalmi) stole his friend Makai's (Károly Eperjes) passport in 1968 and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter in tow and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. Makai is at first happy to see him, but that soon fades. Réb's ex-wife Mari (Mari Kiss) feels the same. Meanwhile, Makai's son is called up for the army, and that leads Makai to make a poor decision about how to help him avoid military service. In contrast to Réb, Makai, and the younger set, the elders who experienced all the horrors of war seem like paragons of both wisdom and stability.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

The Great Generation

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0111	Available	-	-