Péter and Pál, two notorious skirt hunters competing in wooing Oana, a pretty Romanian girl on the beach at Tihany. A couple of days later the girl gets a telegram saying that she has to leave for Bucharest immediately. The party - which has increased with Piri, the interpreter, and Ági, the hitch-hiker - gets to a Romanian village by Peter's ramshackle car, a 1921 Colymne. The car, however, breaks down.
Acting
Sztankay and Ernyei's competitive chemistry is gloriously pathetic.
Production
That 1921 Colymne deserves its own billing. It's a character.
Director
Károly Makk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Prague Spring's ripple effect, this was Makk's rare comedic escape valve before the harder political dramas he'd become famous for.
The Colymne was a real find—production had three identical models because they knew at least one wouldn't survive filming. All three died.
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