The song in the film’s title, the “international hit” cranked out on an accordion, is an unrecognisable East European version of a big Western hit. While the puns and visual gags fall thick and fast in this surreally-inclined satire with a whiff of Jacques Tati, we get a look behind the scenes of the system (of pipes) that envelopes everything. Here, everything happens according to the ritual of dance, from swinging hoes to playing with model boats, and from chasing women to assiduously studying meters. Although the string of 1970s satires surveying the workings of socialism began with this film, the irony, precise observation and affectionate empathy for simple people displayed by the husband-and-wife director and screenwriter, who were both originally chemists, lent the work an unrepeatable filmic quality. Our visitors are kindly informed that this film will be screened in Hungarian. Presented by: Palace of Arts, MaNDA
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