The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
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.
Cast
Zoltán Mucsi
as Kapa
Péter Scherer
as Pepe
József Szarvas
as Józsi
Miklós Jancsó
as Himself
Gyula Hernádi
as Himself
Emese Vasvári
as Emese
Zsolt Kovács
as Zsolti
György Fehér
as György
József Böjte
as Józsi bácsi
Csoma Judit
as Judit
