Variety Critics´ Choice 2002 / Ébrenjárók / Hungary 2002
Middle-aged clerk Sándor is fired from his job so he decides to start a new life. He is soon arrested for drunk driving, however, and ends up in a cell with Anna, a street trader selling cigarettes, and the labourer Bandi. These three apparent shipwreck survivors are the last island of innocence in a town full of fraudsters.
Sándor (Gyorgy Gazsó), a middle-aged office worker, is fired from his job and decides to start a new life. But he hasn´t gone very far when he´s stopped for drunk driving. Meanwhile, Anna (Eszter Márkó) is trying to earn some cash by giving away samples of a new brand of cigarettes, going aimlessly from bar to bar. Third main character is Bandi (Péter László a factory worker who receives a severe electric shock on the job, and begins to quarrel with family and friends. Sándor, Anna and Bandi eventually wind up in a jail cell together, but although they appear to be the losers - dreamers in a city peopled with hucksters and hustlers - they´re the ones who retain their innocence. David Stratton
102 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Bence Miklauzic
/ Screenplay Bence Miklauzic, Balázs Maruszki
/ Dir. of Photography Márton Miklauzic
/ Music Ádám Jávorka
/ Editor Béla Barsi
/ Producer Sándor Simó
/ Production Hunnia Studio, Chaplin Film
/ Cast György Gazsó, Eszter Márkó, Péter Laszló, Sándor Almási, Csaba Pindroch
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