UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15739971
Format:
1 DVD-Video (ca. 73 Min.) + Bonus
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2.0 Stereo
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16:9 ; 1,78:1
Edition:
1
Series Statement:
Magyar Filmtörténeti Sorozata : [DVD-Video] 14
Content:
Two buffoonish bureaucrats are forced to house a large group of people of all ages and discover that their rule-making procedures don't work as well on people in the home. This social comedy is also a musical, with songs composed by Ferenc Gyulai. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)
Content:
SINGING ON THE TREADMILL is a frolic with an edge - which may be why it was banned by the Hungarian authorities for a decade after it was made in 1974. Gyula Gazdag, who directed and did some of the writing, has blended the froth of operetta and the grit of reality into a concoction that is creamy on the outside, tart on the inside... It's a delicious romp. Every time realism gets in the way of Socialist Realism, the principals break into song and dance. ''Don't take advantage of my weakness,'' sings a damsel, and her beau sings back, ''Your weakness sets me on fire.'' The musical numbers, bathed in a roseate glow or set behind pouring rain or around an enormous statue of Eros, with odd characters wandering by, are campily catchy. A lovelorn bureaucrat and a bedraggled fortuneteller do their big duet in water up to their chins... The grand finale brings together the entire cast, fitted out in costumes from every operetta ever staged in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There is rejoicing: ''This nice free life is finally ours.'' But the glow turns to melancholy during a prolonged fadeout in pink - Mr. Gazdag's final and very effective comment, with the chorus swaying mechanically and the principal players smiling, desperately smiling. (Walter Goodman, New York Times)
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: Ungarn, 1974
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mit engl. Untertiteln
Language:
Hungarian
Author information:
Györffy, Miklós
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