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On Home Grounds

1969 · 68 min

A dry, bittersweet small-town comedy that drifts along with quiet irony and a lingering sense of faded hopes.

Directed by
György Palásthy
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Sándor Pécsi, Zoltán Latinovits, László Csákányi
Overview
This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered

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Directed by
György Palásthy
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Sándor Pécsi, Zoltán Latinovits, László Csákányi
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • class
  • isolation
  • friendship
  • ambition
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
György Palásthy
Written by
Imre Bencsik
Starring
Sándor Pécsi, Zoltán Latinovits, László Csákányi, István Egri, János Koltai, László Keleti, István Sztankay, Sándor Tompa
Music
Ferenc Lovas
Cinematography
Ottó Forgács
Runtime
68 min
Country
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian

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