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The Stationmaster Meets His Match

1980 · 66 min

A gentle, episodic rural comedy that ambles along with a hapless but cheerful hero, offering low-stakes chuckles and a warm, forgiving view of failure.

Overview
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 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
  • coming-of-age
  • family
  • identity
  • work
  • survival
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism7
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Sándor Mihályfy
Written by
György Schwajda
Starring
Imre Olvasztó, Róbert Koltai, Teri Horváth, Péter Haumann, Piroska Molnár, János Zách, László Cuczor, Ildikó Pécsi
Runtime
66 min
Country
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian

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