Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
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.
Cast
Zoltán Mucsi
as Kapa
Péter Scherer
as Pepe
Ildikó Tóth
as Russian Girl
Miklós Jancsó
as Miklós Jancsó
Gyula Hernádi
as Gyula Hernádi
Judit Schell
as German Officer
István Márton
as Pista
Balázs Galkó
as Galkó
Béla Fesztbaum
as Béla
Emese Vasvári
as Emese
