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Stupid altright hungarian progaganda that has ruied a quite interesting myth world.

I was thinking about giving this movie a 1 mark (the worst), but after some consideration I decided not to: I appreciate the creativeness of some of the animations, even though I think the story (as so often in Hungarian movies) extremely weak. In fact, there is no story, there are loosely coupled episodes that are supposed to remind us proud Hungarians not to forget our roots. I do remember my roots, so I don't need the reminder. I would need something else: a film that is more than just a lightweight history lesson; a film that presents our history in a non-schematic, powerful way. This is not that movie.

This animated movie meant to show Marcell Jankovics's total devotion and love to our country... Unfortunately, its NOT very entertaining for everyone, and foreigners might simply find it dull. And they're not to blame at all. Looks like this one's been made to "stay in the family". The truth is: It looks more like like a strange ethnographic study on the Hungarian race... Otherwise, its a "complete" movie in its own theme, so if you want to watch some really original animation (horribly dated for it's time, unfortunately) ideas for like 90 minutes, or you're interested in our thousand years old myths and legends, it is definitely worths a watch. Why not.

However, this movie is pretty much like a compilation of Jankovics's earlier series, "Mondák a magyar történelemből", which was way better (it was spot on, at the time it was made, and the episodic nature of these stories fits much better into a series of short cartoons, than a long, and extremely fragmented one), so If you can speak our language, I'd recommend that instead of this movie.

Although, if you want to see a VERY GOOD film in the same genre and sprit, from the same director, grab "Fehérlófia" instead!