The Corporal and the Others
- 15 April 1965 (1965-04-15)
The Corporal and the Others (Hungarian: A tizedes meg a többiek) is a 1965 Hungarian comedy film directed by Márton Keleti.[1] The film was chosen to be part of the Budapest Twelve, a list of Hungarian films considered the best in 1968.[2]
Cast
- Imre Sinkovits - Corporal Ferenc Molnár
- Iván Darvas - Second Lieutenant Eduárd Gálfy
- Tamás Major - Albert, a butler
- György Pálos [hu] - István Szíjjártó, a Communist
- László Ungváry - Lieutenant Barkányi, an Arrow Cross Party member
- László Kozák [hu] - Private Imre Gáspár / János Gáspár
- Gyula Szabó - Private György Fekete / Károly Fekete
- László Márkus - SS Obersturmführer
- Tivadar Horváth [hu] - Gutnacht, a German SS officer
- Lajos Cs. Németh [hu] - Grisha, a Russian soldier
- Sándor Szakács [hu] - the Forester
- Pálma Gyimesi [hu] - the Forester's Wife
- Gábor Agárdy - Commander of the Levente corps (a militaristic right-wing youth movement)
- László Bánhidi - Sergeant Pál Suhajda
Plot
Somewhere in Hungary, in the last days of World War II, Corporal Ferenc Molnár is on the run on a motorbike. He has deserted his unit and taken its money with him. On his journey, he gathers around him a socially and politically diverse group of men whose aim is the same as his: Surviving the war.
Background
As a satirical comedy about the war - a novelty at the time - the film became an immediate commercial and critical sensation in mid-1960s Hungary and was seen by 2.2 million viewers. By putting a cunning everyman into the center of the plot, not heroical partisans, and satirizing all sides, this new type of war film spoke to many everyday Hungarians.[3]
The quote Az oroszok már a spájzban vannak! (The Russians are already in the pantry!) immediately entered the spoken Hungarian language and has been used in many variations since then.[3]
Accolades
Hungarian Film Festival 1966:
- Main award for best film (together with Twenty Hours (Húsz óra) by Zoltán Fábry and My Way Home (Így jöttem) by Miklós Jancsó)
- Best male actor (Imre Sinkovits)
- Special Award of the Jury for best director (Márton Keleti)
Awards of the Hungarian Film Critics 1965:[4]
- Special Award
- Best male actor (Imre Sinkovits)
References
- ^ "The Corporal and the Others". National Film Institute. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
- ^ Ujhelyi, Szilárd (1968). Karcsai Kulcsár, István (ed.). A BUDAPESTI 12. Filmbarátok Kiskönyvtára. Budapest: Magyar Filmtudományi Intézet és Filmarchívum.
- ^ a b "Alapfilmek: A tizedes meg a többiek (in Hungarian)". National Film Institute. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
- ^ cf. Film Színház Muzsika, 4 February 1966, p. 21.
External links
- The Corporal and the Others at IMDb
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