Budapesti mesék (1977)
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Ági Mészáros, Maja Komorowska, Franciszek Pieczka, András Bálint
In ruined postwar Budapest, a group of homeless people try to turn a derailed tram into shelter, then make getting it moving toward a supposedly unscathed city their goal.
The story
On Budapest’s outskirts, left in ruins by the Second World War bombings, a group of homeless people find a tram car that has toppled off the tracks. They work together to try to right the heavy car and use it as makeshift shelter. After finding supplies, they stockpile them inside, where the car must be guarded. Their goal then becomes getting the tram moving again toward a city they have heard supposedly came through the war unscathed.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
On the outskirts of Budapest, which lies in ruins after the bombings of the Second World War, a group of homeless people find a tram car that has toppled off the tracks. Working together, they try to right the heavy car so it can serve as makeshift shelter. They find supplies and stockpile them inside the car, which now has to be guarded. Their goal then becomes to get the car moving again, toward a city they have heard supposedly came through the war unscathed. Along the way, the people involved quarrel; some give up in exhaustion, while others become friends.
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