Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.
Score
Jazz numbers that sting harder than the dialogue.
Writing
Conversations that circle truth like nervous moths.
Director
György Kovásznai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in Hungary for 'bourgeois decadence,' it screened once in 1980 then vanished until 2010 restoration.
Kovásznai rotoscoped real actors but distorted them into anxious, melting figures—visualizing emotional unravelling literally.
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