On Monday, January 22, we celebrate the Day of Hungarian Culture! On this occasion, we will show you a fun Hungarian film classic!
The State Department Store (Hungarian: รllami รกruhรกz), a film from 1953, is one of the most watched Hungarian films of all time. This musical comedy has everything you need to brainwash the people of that time through entertainment: music, love, fight between good and evil. But also an ambitious worker who has gone on to study and has been promoted to a department store manager, who successfully defends the honor of the working people from reactionary speculators. The film also has comic side characters and Budapest humor. The actors are the best of the era, music was written by the author of the best schlagers, the director and cinematographer are also the best in their field. The Hungarian Stalinist regime prescribed what the working people had to hear and see in the cinema, but they did not take into account that the project was carried out by the great filmmakers of pre-war film scene. The filmmakers solved the task by completely exaggerating the required socialist mood, giving a grotesquely ironic perspective to the schematic story. In the film, the propaganda reveals itself and is extremely funny as such.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ 6 ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ 2024.
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๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ on the right side of the page. We will send you the link with the film on Saturday evening. You can also register later, then the link will just reach your inbox later : )
The film has been translated to Estonian by Mirjam Parve and Kriszta Tรณth and premiered in the framework of the "Hungarian Film Evenings" programme at the Tartu Elektriteater in October 2023. Many thanks to you for the inspiring translation and especially for the lyrics!
Have a joyful film night!
