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Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)Read moreLess
Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)
The story
Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)
Cast & crew
Róbert RátonyiVégvári T. Dezső
Tamás MajorIgazgató úr
Ági MargitaiFussbaum Aranka
Péter AndoraiAntal, a katona
András KernAdorján András
Erzsébet KútvölgyiAdorján Zsuzsi
Dezső GarasSvéd Feri
Irén PsotaAdorjánné, mamaExplore the crew
- Writer
- Zsuzsa Tóth
- Director
- Pál Sándor
- Writer
- Iván Mándy
- Original Music Composer
- Presser Gábor
- Director of Photography
- Elemér Ragályi
- Editor
- Éva Kármentő