Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

1h 24min

Drama

Comedy

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

Production Companies

Budapest Film Kft.

Neurópa Film Kft

Cast

Ildikó Tóth

Ildikó Tóth

Russian Girl
Miklós Jancsó

Miklós Jancsó

Miklós Jancsó
Gyula Hernádi

Gyula Hernádi

Gyula Hernádi
Judit Schell

Judit Schell

German Officer
Székely B. Miklós

Székely B. Miklós

Old Hungarian Soldier
András Hajós

András Hajós

Talent Scout

Release date

6th Feb 2003

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch, Magyar, Pусский