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One Bad Egg

1943 · 90 min

A gentle, charming small-town comedy about family and matchmaking, easy to watch and warmly old-fashioned.

Overview
The hero of the story, Gyuszi Ádám, the Jómadár, a lawyer's clerk in Pest, returns home to his parents in Kőhegy, and disrupts the stale, uneventful life of the small town with his mere appearance. He decides to revive his father's dying law firm and marry his 23-year-old sister, who is rapidly approaching the age of the "fair maiden". He successfully carries out his plans, tidies up the office and marries Sárika to their neighbour, with whom she has been hopelessly in love since she was a little girl. But in the meantime, she too falls into the trap of love...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance5
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Directed by
Ákos Ráthonyi
Written by
Géza Palásthy, Andor Kolozsvári, Adorján Bónyi
Starring
Irén Pelsőczy, László Szilassy, Piri Vaszary, Andor Ajtay, Gerő Mály, László Misoga, Ilona Kökény, Mici Erdélyi
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90 min
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Hungary
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