EAST FROM
THE WEST OR THE DISCREET CHARME OF THE MEDIA /
NYUGATTÓL KELETRE, AVAGY A MÉDIA DISZKRÉT BÁJA
HUNGARY 1993
Directed by: István Dárday, Gyorgyi Szalai,100 MIN
The main award of a competition in post-communist Budapest is a gigantic
television-set that can’t be turned off. Ivandos and his friends
take it on an old Russian truck to his new owner, who lives in a remote
Eastern Hungarian village. But the man they want to find has been imprisoned
for spraying communist graffiti.
During the trip, the truck’s crew engages in black-market deals,
has love affairs, takes breaks at amusement arcades and gets in trouble
with the police. A bitter, ironic road-movie that shows the problems of
a post-communist Hungary dealing with an onslaught of western media on
a world ruled by completely different images.
Bambi: 23.04. / 10 p.m.
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