Directed by:
Ferenc KardosCinematography:
János KendeCast:
Dezső Garas, Ildikó Bánsági, József Madaras, Ildikó Pécsi, Judit Halász, Ferenc Bencze, Ila SchützPlots(1)
The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a single child weighing six kilograms. He would like to dampen his feeling of emptiness by having the boy registered both as Péter and Pál. Péter-Pál leads a double life in the same village: at one place he is a painter married to a lean, blonde wife, at the other he is a mason with a typically local wife with brown hair. Péter is helpful and polite, Pál is clumsy and a drunkard. Although the two figures help each other, in the end their lives become hopelessly entangled and Pál drowns Péter. Yet his lost life, the beautiful blonde widow and his orphaned children pull him back. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dezső Garas
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002) (TV movie)
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
Ildikó Bánsági
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Diary for My Loves (1987)
Hanussen (1988)
József Madaras
Romania
Best movies:
My Way Home (1965)
The Red and the White (1967)
The Fortress (1979)
Ildikó Pécsi
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Fifth Seal (1976)
Indul a bakterház (1980) (TV movie)
The Lost Talisman (1968)
Judit Halász
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Father (1966)
Time Masters (1982)
The Age of Daydreaming (1965)
Ferenc Bencze
Romania
Best movies:
The Fifth Seal (1976)
The Fortress (1979)
The Forest of the Hanged (1964)
Ila Schütz
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Nobody's Daughter (1976)
Sunshine (1999)
Silence and Cry (1968)