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Twenty Hours

Original title: Húsz óra
  • 1965
  • 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
531
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Twenty Hours (1965)
Drama

A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before.A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before.A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before.

  • Director
    • Zoltán Fábri
  • Writers
    • Miklós Köllõ
    • Ferenc Sánta
  • Stars
    • Antal Páger
    • János Görbe
    • Emil Keres
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    531
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Zoltán Fábri
    • Writers
      • Miklós Köllõ
      • Ferenc Sánta
    • Stars
      • Antal Páger
      • János Görbe
      • Emil Keres
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Antal Páger
    Antal Páger
    • Elnök Jóska
    János Görbe
    János Görbe
    • Balogh Anti
    Emil Keres
    • Riporter
    Ádám Szirtes
    Ádám Szirtes
    • Kocsis Béni
    László György
    • Varga Sándor.
    József Bihari
    • Cuha András
    Lajos Öze
    • Kiskovács
    János Makláry
    • Vencel György
    • (as Maklári János)
    Károly Kovács
    • A gróf
    Gyula Bodrogi
    • Az orvos
    Ági Mészáros
    • Terus
    Tibor Molnár
    • Máthé
    Teri Horváth
    • Kocsis Benjáminné, Ilonka
    Béla Barsi
    • Tanácselnök
    Ferenc Kiss
    • id. Kiskovács
    Sándor Siménfalvy
    • István bácsi
    • (as Siménfalvi Sándor)
    Ilka Petur
    • Baloghné
    Noémi Apor
    • Jóska felesége
    • Director
      • Zoltán Fábri
    • Writers
      • Miklós Köllõ
      • Ferenc Sánta
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    8JuguAbraham

    A major film for a reflective viewer

    This Zoltan Fabri film was made 11 years before Fabri's monumental film "The Fifth Seal" (1976). Both have a common factor. Both are based on novels written by celebrated Hungarian author Ferenc Santa. Both films explore moral choices one makes in life. In Fabri's own interview given to me in 1982 in Budapest, he rates "Twenty Hours" among his top four films--the others being "The Fifth Seal," "Hungarians." and "Professor Hannibal."

    The astonishing facts about this film are that his film which is indirectly critical of the Russian interference in Hungary post-World War II (there is a passing mention of a communist official getting into trouble for the way he hung Stalin's photo frame) could be made in communist Hungary and go on to win the Grand Prix of the Moscow Film Festival, at a time when that festival was reputed to be one of the best in the world.

    Some of the major spoken lines in the film include: "Everything is an illusion, senseless scrabbling about that many believe to be order itself. They are like the ants" Later towards the end in the film, with a repeated allegorical shot of live ants, another spoken line states "The ants kill each other" when they are moved from one location to another. "Why do they hate each other? This is history. You can't live without a guideline--or a belief"

    The film is about a journalist visiting a small town in Hungary trying to figure out how individuals who grew and lived together turn against each other as years go by, as history replaces the rich landowners and landless poor with cooperatives where the poor get to own land. Even in the changed scenario there are no equals and moral lessons are never learnt. It is a film that makes you think about human values under stress, a theme beautifully illustrated in "The Fifth Seal." Here in "Twenty Hours" too religion is alluded to in words spoken by the townsfolk but not stressed. Doors and walls with bullet holes are retained as stark reminders of recent history, of mindless actions. What does the title refer to? Nothing in the film explains this--possibly it refers to the time spent by the journalist trying to figure out the town's history.

    This is a film that few critics have discussed and requires more attention from true cineastes.

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    • Connections
      Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A magyar film 1957-1970 (1990)
    • Soundtracks
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      Music by Marguerite Monnot

      Lyrics by Georges Moustaki

      Performed by Édith Piaf

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    • Release date
      • March 11, 1965 (Hungary)
    • Country of origin
      • Hungary
    • Language
      • Hungarian
    • Also known as
      • Zwanzig Stunden
    • Production company
      • MAFILM Stúdió 1
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 50m(110 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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