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A Hungarian Fairy Tale

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Andris (Dávid Vermes) is conceived when his mother, Maria (Mária Varga), meets a stranger at a theater performance. The law says the father's name must appear on birth certificates, so Maria puts the name of bureaucrat Antal Orban (Frantisek Husák). After Maria dies, Andris searches for his father, just as Orban destroys the files of illegitimate children in protest against corporate oppression. Yet the two come together with the help of a girl (Eszter Csákányi), and become a new kind of family.

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Kurt Jacobsen Chicago Reader In A Hungarian Fairy Tale Gazdag creates a memorable world that whimsically deals out names and death and affection and then challenges it at every level, literal and symbolic. A strange and rewarding brew for the adventurous. Rated: 3/4 May 11, 2022 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 8, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews
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Gyula Gazdag

Director

Dávid Vermes

Andris

Frantisek Husák

Orbán Antal, gyámügyi elõadó

Pál Hetényi

Orbán

Mária Varga

Mária, Andris anyja

Eszter Csákányi

A lány
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Synopsis Andris (Dávid Vermes) is conceived when his mother, Maria (Mária Varga), meets a stranger at a theater performance. The law says the father's name must appear on birth certificates, so Maria puts the name of bureaucrat Antal Orban (Frantisek Husák). After Maria dies, Andris searches for his father, just as Orban destroys the files of illegitimate children in protest against corporate oppression. Yet the two come together with the help of a girl (Eszter Csákányi), and become a new kind of family.
Director
Gyula Gazdag
Producer
Lajos Óvári
Screenwriter
Gyula Gazdag, Miklós Györffy
Distributor
M.D. Wax Courier Films
Production Co
Hunnia Films
Genre
Fantasy
Original Language
Hungarian
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 28, 1988, Original
Runtime
1h 37m
Sound Mix
Mono