Bëlga

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.

Twenty years ago, one of the most influential bands in post-millennium Hungarian pop music, Bëlga, burst onto the scene. But the band members, who hide behind sunglasses and costumes, have always kept themselves hidden from the public eye, and so far no comprehensive documentary has been made about them, and they are rarely interviewed. Gergely Laki and Bálint Klopfstein-László's film Bëlga - Ancestral History focuses on the birth and early days of the band. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr62wO8A0ws)