Middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of an other journey he made thirty years ago.
Acting
Máté's dual performance: same man, two different failures.
Cinematography
Train compartments as liminal spaces between then and now.
Director
József Pacskovszky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Esti Kornél is Dezső Kosztolányi's fictional alter-ego, a beloved Hungarian literary figure; this adaptation dares to age him into bitter middle-class mediocrity.
The 1995 timing matters: post-communist Hungary grappling with what identity means when the performance of self outlasts the systems that shaped it.
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