GOD WALKS BACKWARDS
Homage
The Iron Curtain has fallen, in Hungary the Communist regime has toppled. On behalf of his uncle the television journalist Marci sets out with a colleague to attend a political meeting in an abandoned police station. A chaotic scene awaits them: the site has been occupied by followers of the new political groupings in Hungary. When the assassination of Gorbachev is announced on the news, tanks suddenly come rolling up… Jancsó’s film about the demise of the Soviet Union is an auto-reflexive image spectacle and a provocative parable on the fall of Communism.
ISTEN HÁTRAFELÉ MEGY / GOTT GEHT RÜCKWÄRTS
HUN 1990 / 95 min
Director: Miklós Jancsó
- Screenplay: Gyula Hernádi
- Cinematographer: János Kende
- Editor: Eszter Kovács,Zsuzsa Csákány
- Music: Lásló Dés,Vilmos Jánori
- Cast: Károly Eperjes,György Dörner,József Madaras
- Producer: György Gát,Tibor Puszt
- Production Company: Filmex - Hungary
The Iron Curtain has fallen, in Hungary the Communist regime has toppled. On behalf of his uncle the television journalist Marci sets out with a colleague to attend a political meeting in an abandoned police station.
A chaotic scene awaits them: the site has been occupied by followers of the new political groupings in Hungary. When the assassination of Gorbachev is announced on the news, tanks suddenly come rolling up…
Jancsó’s film about the demise of the Soviet Union is an auto-reflexive image spectacle and a provocative parable on the fall of Communism.
- Screenplay: Gyula Hernádi
- Cinematographer: János Kende
- Editor: Eszter Kovács,Zsuzsa Csákány
- Music: Lásló Dés,Vilmos Jánori
- Cast: Károly Eperjes,György Dörner,József Madaras
- Producer: György Gát,Tibor Puszt
- Production Company: Filmex - Hungary