Péter Tímár's first film, Sound Eroticism, also highlighted - very amusingly - what it is like to live in a country riven by lies. It was achingly current. Dollybirds approaches the same question from a different perspective. The events of the 1990s have now passed, but the chronic confusion over our values is yet to heal today. That was the strange dilemma of the 1990s: should we forgive those who dared to live, work and exist under the previous regime? Because they had some beautiful memories, too. Then there were those who still looked back nostalgically on Hungary's dark past. Dollybirds gives us the chance to divorce ourselves from Hungary's past through the power of laughter. The story begins on 28 August 1962, and immediately descends into a musical burlesque. There is a parade of hit songs from the 1970s that you will struggle to get out of your head. Songs that have been covered and performed so many times that here we find them reinterpreted by the more modern rock band, Kispál és a Borz. It's funny. But how funny was life then? Not digital, but utterly controlled. We have the character played by Péter Andorai, who has been slinging mud at the Communist leaders Horthy, Szálasi and Rákosi, and is now getting ready to sling mud at Kádár. His greatest treasure is an index finger - from Stalin's toppled statue. Terribly funny. The question is whether we can bring ourselves to laugh.

In Hungarian, without subtitles.
The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest