The summons

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Movie
German title The summons
Original title Utószezon
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1967
length 118 minutes
Rod
Director Zoltán Fábri
script Péter Szász
music Szabolcs Fényes
camera György Illés
cut Ferencné Szécsényi
occupation

The summons (original title: Utószezon ) is a Hungarian fictional film with tragicomic features from 1967 by Zoltán Fábri . The script was written by Péter Szász . It is based on a novel by György Rónay . The leading roles are cast with Antal Páger , Noémi Apor , Lajos Básti and Sándor Kömíves . The work was first shown in the cinema on January 23, 1967 in Hungary. In Germany, the film premiered on November 19, 1969 in the ARD program.

action

Several retired old men, who spend their time with a beer in the station waiting room, watching people arriving and leaving and with typical old man's pranks, come across the macabre idea of ​​their friend Kerekes, animated by a newspaper report about the Eichmann trial missed a few days in your company, to scare you with a fake summons from the state police. However, Kerekes reacts very differently than they expected. He does not drive to the location of the police department, but to another town and see the pharmacy there where he worked as an assistant during the Second World War; because he connects the summons with his denunciation of the business owners as Jews at the time and searches for their fate. In doing so, he also finds an old comrade who was the chief of police at the time and who had coaxed the few ruinous words from him.

The restless friends track down Kerekes again, and the man, startled in his conscience, demands from them an assessment of his behavior at the time.

Kerekes, his friends and the former police chief come to a midnight improvised court hearing that was recreated from the similarly macabre event in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's " Panne ". Some absolve him of all guilt, others consider a death sentence to be right. Kerekes seriously wants to face the police. But you don't understand him there. A suicide attempt that he then makes fails. Then he returns to his friends and immerses himself in their unusual pastime.

criticism

The evangelical film observer is full of praise: “A film which, precisely from its mixture of tragicomic farce and psychoanalytic illumination of a consciousness, convincingly demonstrates the behavior of many so-called little men, who became cogs in the machinery of extermination of fascism, to his own Reflects the past. Worth seeing for ages 16 and up. ”The lexicon of international film also comes to a positive assessment:“ In an artful synthesis of coming to terms with the past and a macabre joke, Hungary's eminent director Zoltán Fábri creates a picture of human guilt and at the same time a warning for the future: Off the "funny" idea of ​​four idle old men to send their boyfriend a "summons" to the state police is getting really serious. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 504/1969, pp. 496 to 497
  2. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4165