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5.6 1h 24m

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

"A múlthoz nem visszanyúlni kell, a múltat le kell nyúlni."

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.

Top Cast

  • Zoltán Mucsi

    Zoltán Mucsi

    Kapa

  • Péter Scherer

    Péter Scherer

    Pepe

  • Ildikó Tóth

    Ildikó Tóth

    Russian Girl

  • Miklós Jancsó

    Miklós Jancsó

    Miklós Jancsó

  • Gyula Hernádi

    Gyula Hernádi

    Gyula Hernádi

  • Judit Schell

    Judit Schell

    German Officer

  • István Márton

    István Márton

    Pista

  • Balázs Galkó

    Balázs Galkó

    Galkó

  • Béla Fesztbaum

    Béla Fesztbaum

    Béla

Overview

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.

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