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EAST FROM THE WEST OR THE DISCREET CHARME OF THE MEDIA

Symposium

The main award of a competition in post-communist Budapest is a gigantic television-set that can’t be turned off. Ivandžos and his friends take it on an old Russian truck to his new owner, who lives in a remote Eastern Hungarian village. But the man they want to find has been imprisoned for spraying communist graffiti. During the trip, the truck’s crew engages in black-market deals, has love affairs, takes breaks at amusement arcades and gets in trouble with the police. A bitter, ironic road-movie that shows the problems of a post-communist Hungary dealing with an onslaught of western media on a world ruled by completely different images.
Nyugattól keletre, avagy a média diszkrét bája / Ost von West oder der Diskrete Charme der Medien
HUN 1993 / 100 min
Director: István Dárday,Győrgyi Szalai
  • Screenplay: István Dárday,Győrgyi Szalai
  • Cinematographer: Tibor Nemes
  • Editor: Margit Galamb
  • Music: Jószef Czencz
  • Cast: András Szőke,János Regős,Sándor Badár,Győző Szabó
  • Producer: Lajos Gulyás,Jószef Czencz
  • Production Company: Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás - Budapest
The main award of a competition in post-communist Budapest is a gigantic television-set that can’t be turned off. Ivandžos and his friends take it on an old Russian truck to his new owner, who lives in a remote Eastern Hungarian village. But the man they want to find has been imprisoned for spraying communist graffiti. During the trip, the truck’s crew engages in black-market deals, has love affairs, takes breaks at amusement arcades and gets in trouble with the police. A bitter, ironic road-movie that shows the problems of a post-communist Hungary dealing with an onslaught of western media on a world ruled by completely different images.
  • Screenplay: István Dárday,Győrgyi Szalai
  • Cinematographer: Tibor Nemes
  • Editor: Margit Galamb
  • Music: Jószef Czencz
  • Cast: András Szőke,János Regős,Sándor Badár,Győző Szabó
  • Producer: Lajos Gulyás,Jószef Czencz
  • Production Company: Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás - Budapest