Lindsay Anderson's - and Malcolm McDowell's - story emerges from the traditions of British literature. It is part travel book, part picaresque novel and part coming-of-age story -and a reflection on the possibility of social advancement. Though it takes place in the 1970s. The belief in science's ability to redeem the world has faded, but the fashionable ideas of the age of Aquarius feel like nothing more substantial than bizarre clothing and no less strange voices. It is a grotesque, sometimes surrealistic tale, in which the social elite and the ruling class have lost their values, and where those below them have turned into mobs, with no longer any solidarity with each other. Travis' odyssey - from bed to bed and prison to prison, with a series of papers to be signed and a series of failures to endure - reveals a world that could in no way be considered the best of all worlds. The almost grandly epic film holds a bizarre twist at the very end. But we can only talk about that, and it is only worth discussing it, after you have seen the film.

In English, with Hungarian subtitles.
The discussions before and after the screenings are conducted in Hungarian.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest