Picture to download Prizes: 1993 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Best Actress: Ági Szirtes

Junk Movie (Roncsfilm) (1992, feature, 35mm, colour, 92 min.) Director: György Szomjas Screenplay: Ferenc Grunwalsky, György Szomjas Director of photography: Ferenc Grunwalsky Editor: Anna Kornis Music: Ferenc Kiss Sound: György Kovács Visual design: Tamás Vayer Costumes: Zsuzsa Stenger Production manager: András Ozorai Producer: Ferenc Kardos Production company: Budapest Film Studio Cast: Sándor Gáspár, Zoltán Mucsi, Ági Szirtes, Ildikó Bánsági, András Szőke, Péter Andorai It is 1989, the year of the demise of socialism in eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the one theme of Junk Movie does not refer to this historical moment of high ideals, quite the contrary, the wild, burlesque of a motif-mozaic seems merely to stick it’s tongue out at the arrogant players of politics who have their heads stuck in the clouds. The film rudely points out the mystery and unapproachability surrounding the every-day existence of politics. The scene is a greasy, falling-down block of a pub called the Gólya and its immediate surroundings. This is a world of Chaplinesque men-in-the-street. An usure, dilapidated world, a world of unemployed people and hired hands, vegetable sellers and taxi drivers, warm-hearted crooks and occasional lovers. A cruel and disfigured world, one of warm-heartedness and sudden anger. And meanwhile, the television in showing changing world events, enticing adverts for luxuries – but here is another existence altogether – somebody is chased off with the help of a gas spray; somebody ends up with a knife in their back in a brawl; a father is almost burned during a family argument; the janitor takes his wife hostage; but most important of all, Kapa goes back to Gizi because he really loves her.