Damn You! the Mosquitoes

Damn You! the Mosquitoes

2000 · 81 min · ★ 4.9 · Comedy

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to approach the old man, because she is the only one he would speak to. But Mesi is more concerned with the idea that she wants a child, by now from anyone, while Pepe is jealous. Kapa’s alleged son emerges, with the mafia behind him: they, too, are eager to get grandpa’s money. After threats and blackmailing, poisoned apples are sent, with only one side of them poisonous. Those dead, by the way, are resurrected by the sound of a song. At last, nobody manages to get the money, but it wouldn’t make sense anyway: it’s all fake. The Statue of Liberty, however, turns out to be blind.

Directed by Miklós Jancsó · Written by Miklós Jancsó

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Zoltán Mucsi Kapa
Péter Scherer Pepe
Emese Vasvári Emese
Székely B. Miklós Tatus, Kapa's Father
János Gyuriska János, Kapa's Son
István Márton Pisti
Lajos Ottó Horváth Boss
Csaba Méhes Csabi
Zsolt Kovács Zsolti
Csoma Judit Judit
András Lovasi András Lovasi
Lagzi Lajcsi Lagzi Lajcsi

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