Movie
The banquet
1982 · 84 min
A quiet, talky reunion where old villagers and officials argue over a half-remembered experiment, leaving you to weigh whose version to trust.
- Directed by
- Gyula Gazdag
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- Right after the Red Army in 1944 was deliberating a little village, Veszto in eastern Hungary, the locals formed their "government", excommunicated the goods remaining in the village and distributed them among the poor. The social experiment only lasted two months, but this episode later became infamous in the communist press of Hungary and was referred to as 'Republic of Veszto'. 35 years later, in 1979, the actors and the witnesses, the representatives of the communist administration back then and the poors of the village get together in a little pub in Veszto and try to resuscitate and evaluate those old days. The memories clash one another.
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- Directed by
- Gyula Gazdag
- Genres
- Documentary
