A bus driver bets everything on a truck. Communism crumbles. What could go wrong?
Sanyi is the driver of a co-op bus and lives in tenancy with his wife and son. In order to get along he buys the auctioned truck of the co-op and becomes a transportation entrepreneur. First everything goes well, they start a construction.
Acting
Eperjes carries every humiliation with devastating restraint.
Direction
Erdőss finds poetry in crumbling concrete and empty roads.
Director
Pál Erdőss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual economic transition; the crumbling infrastructure wasn't always production design.
Part of Hungary's 'documentary fiction' wave, casting real workers alongside professionals for verisimilitude.
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