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Rabbits in the Cloak-Room

1971 · 78 min

A wry, biting satire of small-time graft, funny and sour at once, where petty corruption plays like a grim running joke.

Overview
The bitter film grotesque focuses on a Socialist Mafioso. Vágó, the enthusiastic young propagandist is put up at Apuka (Daddy) of the outskirts, Dávid. In the hands of Apuka everything becomes money and he skilfully avoids inspection and controls. In order to help his little family, he sells his rabbit husbandry as mutton, he practises usury on and blackmails his tenants, their rooms are operated as cigar stores.

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • greed
  • class
  • power
  • survival
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour7
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
István Bácskai Lauró
Written by
András Polgár
Starring
Antal Páger, István Iglódi, László Inke, János Rajz, Ila Schütz, Hilda Gobbi
Runtime
78 min
Country
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian

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