In this film Károly Makk strings together two taboo-breaking short stories by Tibor Déry. Behind the Brick Wall is set in the early 1950s. Comrade Bódi, an embittered party worker, reports his fellow workers who are stealing ‘the assets of the people’ from the factory, but then he has to reckon with his own conscience. In Philemon and Baucis, history turns the idyllic private life of an elderly couple upside down. The 1956 uprising sweeps an injured fighter their way. The old man helps as best he can while his wife desperately tries to save her husband.
Supporting film:
Plate-boy (12)
Pléh-boy, Hungarian animation, colour, 1973, dir: Béla Vajda, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, 7’
Documentary-based animated portrait about a 27-year-old roofer who works long hours during the week in order to blow all his hard-earned cash in restaurants and casinos at the weekend. The director caricatures the young man’s statements using collages taken from magazine and newspaper clippings.
