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Epidemic

1975 · 90 min

A grim, slow trudge through misery and mass graves, heavy with despair and hard to shake.

Directed by
Pál Gábor
Genres
Drama
Starring
András Kozák, Anna Chodakowska, Ion Bog
Overview
The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.

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Directed by
Pál Gábor
Genres
Drama
Starring
András Kozák, Anna Chodakowska, Ion Bog
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • class
  • power
  • survival
  • corruption
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Pál Gábor, Lajos Maróti
Starring
András Kozák, Anna Chodakowska, Ion Bog, Gábor Reviczky, László Szacsvay, Gábor Koncz, József Madaras
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Cinematography
Lajos Koltai
Runtime
90 min
Country
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian

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