Let the Dragon Out

A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts, who are looking for a huge bomb which may explode in any minute. Written by Tamas Patrovics

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?

Feri is forty-eight years old, twenty-six of which he has worked as a trainee in a screw factory. Workers' spirit, workers' choir, football matches. He's in good shape, though he's put on a little weight, he doesn't go bald, he's a big talker and considers himself a great ladies' man, even though he only used to go for Gizika, the storekeeper, in the factory days. His wife of twenty-six years is Joli, a year older than him. A perpetually dissatisfied woman with a headache. In her heyday, she was an administrator at KÖJÁL, but was demoted because of her diabetes. His hobbies include crocheting, crossword puzzles and long TV series, which he and his girlfriend, hairdresser Icu, regularly discuss. On that particular Saturday morning, when Feri was going fishing and Joli was about to cook stuffed chicken for their wedding anniversary, they had no idea that their lives would change so much that afternoon. This is where our story really begins.

The main character of our story is János, 18 years old in 1944, preparing for his final exams. In March, the Germans occupy the country, and the exams are moved forward — some even have to take them wearing the yellow star. Meanwhile, at the Parliament Café, he is training to be an assistant firefighter and meets one of the bread girls, Nusi.

In this absurd comedy two television reporters set out to find the famous gypsy Csulano.

Underrated in light of its current (February 4, 2007) IMDb score of 6.4, this film reminded me of what Joseph Heller's 'Something Happened' could look like if a film was to be made out of it. Our middle-aged character's life is in a fragile balance at the start and soon that balance will, of course, be disturbed. Even without much in the way of drama at first, an at times nightmarish reality intermingles with nightmares, and, typically for a movie from this region, state bureaucracy and the absurdities of a semi-legal order play a role in moving developments along. So what is it that awaits our hero down the informal road he is officially sent? Complete deconstruction? Or the 'unbearable lightness of being'? If you give the movie the time to unfold, it will reward you revealing an entertaining concept by the end.

In the late '90s Balazs's family is falling apart front of his brand new VHS camera he got for his 8th birthday.

A hitman is hired in the middle of the night to eliminate someone and clean up the crime scene, but upon arrival he is confronted with the fact, that he must kill his own apprentice.

Kata sets off to meet her boyfriend's parents for the first time, but stops after getting off the train. Is she really ready for their relationship to get this serious? Is she ready for adult life? In order to think about all this, she needs to break away from her usual everyday life for a day in order to experience the forgotten feeling of youth and freedom in a dreamlike adventure.

Could I live anywhere else? Before Hanna moves abroad, she gets lost and rediscovers her Eastern European home country in a twisted journey.

Réka tries to protect her daughter as they flee from the dragon. She can't let her guard down, because danger lurks everywhere. But the dragon is much stronger than the princess.