DO YOU KNOW “SUNDAY-MONDAY”?

Visual pleasure, surreal humour and profound political art – with her debut film, Lívia Gyarmathy, one of Hungary's first female feature film directors, managed to deliver an astonishingly candid critique of the system in the midst of the repressive Kádár era. A colourful, vibrant Kombinat comedy shot in CinemaScope with a real-socialist sci-fi storyline, featuring high-tech video surveillance and a sprawling pipe construction on the grounds of a chemical factory that eludes comprehension. No one – that is, aside from a few key figures in management – is permitted to know what's inside the pipes. Almost 50 years later, the director explained in an interview for the magazine Frauen und Film: "Thank God most of the members of the central film directorate didn't understand what the film was trying to say."