We live in an age of unhappiness. Like all people of all ages, we experience our everyday private and public life waiting for redeeming miracles. A bittersweet caffeehouse tale with humor and foam, music and chocolate sauce in 15 minutes.
Recorrido por la historia política y social de Hungría a lo largo del siglo XX. Dividida en tres partes, la película está protagonizada por Ralph Fiennes, que interpreta a tres personajes de una misma familia pertenecientes a distintas épocas: un abogado judío de principios de siglo, un esgrimista olímpico cuya vida coincide con el nacimiento del fascismo, en 1930, y un activista político que asiste a la implantación del comunismo, en 1950.
Korobkin
Grandfather (voice)
Juli es una adolescente criada en la Unión Soviética y repatriada a Hungría en los años previos a los sucesos de 1956. Allí deberá convivir con su tía Magda, una estalinista convencida, con la que mantendrá una relación progresivamente hostil.
Orvos
More than a storyline with a beginning, middle, and end, this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman -- and fellow worker -- to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative male-female relationship. After his wife dies, the rough-cut and intentionally nameless "man" (Jozsef Madaras) eventually coerces the "woman" (Julianna Nyako) into doing his housework for a small remuneration. Everything goes along passably well for awhile, until the man adds in more household responsibility in the form of chickens to raise. Due to extra work at the factory, the woman cannot tend to the chickens as she should and the result is that some of them die. The man is furious, verbally abuses her, and then rapes her. Later, the woman discovers she is pregnant, with dire consequences.
Ügyelõ
Un ambicioso actor de teatro (Brandauer) no duda en concentrar todos sus esfuerzos en adular el nazismo con tal de lograr el éxito en su profesión. Llega incluso a casarse con la hija de un importante prohombre del régimen para poder medrar.
The Barber
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
