

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
2003 Directed by Miklós JancsóThis 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.

Zoltán Mucsi
....................................................Kapa

Péter Scherer
....................................................Pepe

Ildikó Tóth
....................................................Russian Girl

Miklós Jancsó
....................................................Miklós Jancsó

Gyula Hernádi
....................................................Gyula Hernádi

Judit Schell
....................................................German Officer
István Márton
....................................................Pista
Director
...........................................................Miklós Jancsó
Producer
...........................................................András Ozorai
Writer
...........................................................Ferenc Grunwalsky
Gyula Hernádi
Miklós Jancsó
Director of Photography
...........................................................Ferenc Grunwalsky
Production Design
...........................................................Tamás Banovich
Production Companies
...................................................Budapest Film Kft.
Neurópa Film Kft
Production Countries
........................................................Hungary
Spoken Languages
....................................................Deutsch
Magyar
Pусский
Genres
....................................................Drama
Comedy
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