Peter Barbalics

Samba

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Working as a buyer for a glaziery, Otto Szamba Sr. is also the center of cultural activities in a small town near Budapest. He organizes festivals, a rowing squad, a choir, and a community theatre group. The children of the town embrace the community theatre, all except Otto junior who is ashamed of his father's tendency to overact both on stage and in real life. After some detours Otto Jr. and his friend end up as students of the Budapest Drama School. Along with generational differences being a main theme, the conflict of Communism vs.

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Actors: 
Robert Koltai; Judith Pogany; Lajos Kovacs; Tamas Jordan; Gyorgyi Kari; Kati Lazar; Andor Lukats; Adam Rajhona; Laszlo Gorog; Judit Hernadi; Eva Kerekes; Piroska Molnar; Laszlo Zsolt

Vaska EasOff

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In this fractured fairy tale for adults, two thieves--Vaska and Vanya--steal the czar's treasure from the Bank of St. Petersburg by opening the roof with a sardine can opener taken from the nest of a griffin. And this is only the start of their misadventures: Vaska is temporarily beheaded, the Red Guards are hot on their heels, and copious amounts of Vodka are consumed by all. Set in Soviet Russia, Vaska Easoff was derived from a mythical story passed among prisoners of the Communist labor camps.

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Actors: 
Antal Cserna, Maksim Sergeyev, Yevgeni Sidikhin, Valentina Kasyanova, Boris Solominovits, Eszenyi Eniko

CHILD MURDERS

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Zsolt Balogh is a very lonely 12 year-old boy. He lives with his grandmother,
Bizsu. The old lady, now bed-ridden, was once a famous primadonna
but has now completely shut herself off from the world in her darkened room.
She is an alcoholic and needs a considerable quantity of drink just to get
through the day. She sees no one apart from her grandson. They live in
a block of flats in one of the most run-down areas of Budapest on the banks
of the Danube. Zsolt’s mother, who left the country as a dissident, sends a

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Actors: 
Barnabás Tóth, Mária Balogh, Ilona Kállai, Péter Andorai, Eszter Csákányi

WOYCZEK

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Woyzeck
(Woyzeck)

Georg Buchner would turn 180 this year. He was not immortal,
but his drama, Woyzeck, survived all the shocks of the past
150 years. Woyzeck is alive, walks around among us to show
that the big experiment with outcast of this world is not over.
How far can we got with this experiment? To infinity!
WOYZECK - WOZZEK - VOJCEK - only the name changes,
but the world is eternal, the salvation, the rest is so remote,
so out of reach. The little man forced out on the periphery of
the huge railway station: Woyzeck - a speck of dust of a man,

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Actors: 
Lajos Kovács, Alekszandr Porohovscsikov, Péter Haumann, Sándor Gáspár, Diana Vacaru
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