Cotton Chicken

Cotton Chicken

1990 · 75 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy

A mythical “hen” rises from the factory canteen’s lake to gobble the golden egg that Marinka, the lunchroom maid, discovered in the ketchup—an egg that was supposed to launch an American-Hungarian joint venture but went missing amid corporate scheming and a police probe into a mysterious “spillage.”

Directed by Gábor Ferenczi

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