Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: Slap Jack!

Director: Péter Tímár

Screenplay by Péter Tímár
Director of photography: Péter Szatmári
Music by Sándor Hoffmann
Cast: Vera Pap, Sándor Gáspár, Károly Eperjes

Programme Section "Open Archives" /Restoration premiere / NFI Film Archive

A letter from the Dermatological and Venereal Clinic turns the marriage of Bea and Géza upside down. Initial discussion slowly degrades into all-out war, with the couple doing their best to make the life of the other impossible. The battlefield is littered with ripped trousers, burned stockings, broken porcelain and a kitchen swimming in honey. Even neighbour Béla, who is training for the restoration with his secret workers’ guard in the shed at the bottom of the garden, has a hard time coping with the non-stop arguments. Péter Tímár’s burlesque comedy is about change-of-regime Hungary.

Supporting film: Private Nightmare (12)
Hungarian animation, bw, 1980, dir: István Orosz, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, 7’

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