Eckermann (Laszlo Kistamas) is a listless computer whiz who spends most of his time lounging in a bathtub holding imaginary conversations with cartoon characters usually more popular with children than grownups. He has some friends who want to use his skills to steal some money from a local gambling joint. He works out a scheme for his friends and returns to his tub. At some point along the way, he is joined in the water by a lovely Czech refugee, who (perhaps inadvertently) makes it possible for him to die there.
Direction
Monory Mész's hypnotic visual language—bath as universe.
Writing
Dialogue with cartoon characters that cuts deeper than human conversation.
Director
András Monory Mész
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hungary's final communist years, the film captures a specific generational malaise—youth with technical skills but no economic future, escaping into Western pop culture.
The bathtub serves as both womb and coffin—director Monory Mész called it 'the only honest architecture of the Eastern Bloc.'
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