Le Petit Voyage (A kis utazás) (2000, feature, 35mm, colour, 100 min.) Director: Mihály Buzás Screenplay: Zoltán Kőrösi, Mihály Buzás, György Pálos Writer: Mihály Buzás Director of photography: György Pálos Editor: György Czabán, Mihály Buzás, Katalin Juhász, György Pálos Music: Zoltán Végső Sound: János Kőporossy Visual design: Noémi Lengyel Costumes: Zita Kozári, Anita Tánczos Production manager: Csilla Győri Producer: Mihály Buzás Production company: Zsebcselek Csoport Cast: Erzsébet Dózsa, Mihály Szikra, Nóra Cseszárik, Imola Gáspár, Arnold Farkas, József Gyabronka It is a low budget film. The story takes place at the turn of the seventies and the eighties. The main characters are teenagers and some teachers. A small town has its ordinary life. In a high school – while the gym teacher is making love to the married physics teacher – guys talk about girls and girls talk about guys. They smoke in the toilet, never prepare for inter-school competitions, wash the family car on weekends and listen to the endless warnings of their fathers in the kitchen while they’re thinking about how much they’re in love. Then a phone call comes: a class has to take a trip to the German Democratic Republic. The class 3/b seems to be a good idea. The people from that class are in their thirties now. The trip to East Germany was an important station for them in order to grow up. A lot of them lost their virginity there, a lot smoked the first cigarette, many shaved, got drunk for the first time and for some it was the first trip to a foreign country. That brings about a lot of funny and confusing situations, since love affairs and personal dramas are happening there too. All these take place in a grotesque and senseless environment called the socialist creative camp. The music screams from a MK 25 tape recorder, they listen to the band Piramis; they pick up Slovakian girls and dance with them to the music of the band Dzingis Khan and slow down to hold them tight as Udo Jürgens sings his emotional songs. The farewell party almost turns into a scandal but they manage to buy cheap mixers, hairdryers, toasters, etc... Whoever went for this trip came back as a different person, but there’s no happy ending or dramatic conclusion. The story makes a circle and gets back to pretty much the same place where it started. It was only a trip, nothing else.