Szamárköhögés
A 10-year-old boy in 1956 Budapest initially celebrates school closures, unaware of the uprising's gravity. As friends and relatives vanish, both children and adults face the harsh reality of the revolution.
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"The first film from Hungary to examine the 1956 anti-communist uprising does so from a sober but not always serious point of view, through the eyes of a boisterous Budapest family swept up in the resulting turmoil. Most of the action is witnessed by ten-year old Tomi, who aside from everything else has to shoulder the extra burden of his own sexual awakening, next to which the Soviet invasion is only a happy excuse not to go to school. The film will likely be compared (somewhat unfairly) to John Boorman's more polished wartime coming-of-age comedy 'Hope and Glory', which it actu..."
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The solution to the mathematical problem in the film is 56. It is the year of the Hungarian Revolution and also the year in which the film is set.
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A 10-year-old boy in 1956 Budapest initially celebrates school closures, unaware of the uprising's gravity. As friends and relatives vanish, both children and adults face the harsh reality of the revolution.