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Jenö, a banker from Budapest, starts making films in 1936 with an 8 mm camera. He films his Attila Street and other spots in his beloved town, which, although sometimes unrecognisable, can nonetheless be identified. Further, there are of course many family snapshots, holiday trips to Tirol and Geneva, but also a football match in a crowded stadium (the score is shown in a newspaper headline!) and important high and low points from Hungary's existence: Nazi troops marching through in 1942, a bombing of Budapest, a Stalin monument in a Stalin park. All this fascinates through the patina of time, especially the pre-war daily life, and an aesthetic judgement would be inappropriate here. Exactly the clumsy way in which Jenö shows his wife Dusi beating the mats, drinking coffee on a trip and particularly when she is fussing over their coarse haired dachshund almost makes one fall in love with her. Her sadness at the death of her dog is sentimental and honest; two successors follow. Dusi dies in 1958, Jenö remarries. Some gestures must never disappear.
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Erik Daams
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Editing: Márta Révész, Music: Tibor Szemzö, Musicians: Lászlo Göz, László Hortobágyi, Éva Posvanec, Tibor Szemzö, Tamás Tóth, Advice: Gábor Ferenczi, János Tóth, Production: Mafilm, BBS-MTV, FMS Studio Budapest
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