But why do we love the main character, Uncle Gyuszi? The answer is simple: he is played by Róbert Koltai himself, who in addition to his work as a director was also a bonafide acting star of the 1980s and 1990s, often in comic roles. There is also another, slightly more complicated explanation. Uncle Gyuszi is a horse-racing-addicted skirt chaser who owes something to everyone. And despite his constant boasting, you could hardly describe his life as a roaring success. He sells coat hangers in country towns and villages, peddling his sophisticated products from door to door. His rhyming puns are risible, his life goals don't stretch beyond the end of the day, he lies, and sometimes he violates the limits of the law. So why do his victims let him trick them? It's simple: they aren't actually victims. Uncle Gyuszi makes their lives better. He touches them, he embraces. He provides a service of human warmth in a world of gloom. And they reward this service, this care and attention, in their own special way: with food, drink, loans, hugs, prayers. With whatever they can. He is closest to his nephew, Imi. We bear witness to Gyuszi's final mission, where he initiates the pampered, sheltered teenager into the world of adulthood. In the meantime, Uncle Gyuszi becomes our hero: because he is capable of resolving unsolvable situations - in his own special way. And while we tactfully avert our gaze to avoid seeing his catalogue of errors, he is a protagonist capable of navigating his tiny dinghy with incredible dexterity through the tempestuous seas of life. That's it.

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

Presented by: Müpa Budapest