Andrea Ladányi

1918년 주인공 '토마스'는 전쟁에서 죽었지만 아이 영혼의 도움으로 다시 살아나게 되고, 이를 계기로 영정사진사가 된다. 어느 날, 죽음의 경계에서 본 아이 영혼 '아나'를 다시 만나게 되고 전쟁과 스페인 독감이 휩쓴 아나의 마을로 간다. 수많은 사람이 죽은 아나의 마을은 이상한 기운과 함께 유령이 있다는 소문이 돌았고 점점 기괴한 현상이 나타나기 시작한다. 이를 조사하던 토마스는 떠도는 유령들을 사후세계로 보내야 한다는 확신을 가지게 된다.

Set in 1983, behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in Budapest, the film follows Frank, the charismatic singer of a banned punk band that carries the voice of their generation against a totalitarian regime. Taken to the police psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him, Frank will sacrifice everything to resist.

The 22-year-old Antal is a member of the hated political police. In October of 1956, during the revolution in Budapest, he escapes the wrath of the people by fleeing to the countryside house of his aunt, a Holocaust survivor. Aunt Sára tries her best to mother him and divert the attention of battered Antal with an old favorite song. When the Soviets launch an attack against Hungary on November 4, Antal is determined to join them in order to get his revenge. But Aunt Sára’s song keeps ringing in his ears, no matter how hard he tries to push it away. He has an unbearable earworm. When the time finally comes for vengeance, his earworm gets the better of him. The song becomes a macabre dance of death...

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

고등학생이 된 테리는 자동차 사고로 아내를 잃고, 자책감과 실의에 빠져 술로 세월을 보내는 아버지가 늘 안타깝다. 그런 아버지를 위해 친구들과 함께 방법을 모색하던 중 3년전 악마가 나타나 폐허가 됐었던 집을 찾는다. 그곳에서 주술을 사용해 악마를 불러내 어머니를 살리려고 하는 테리 일행은 악마를 불러내는데 성공하게 되고...