Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

84 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 6, 2003

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.

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

84 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 6, 2003

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Budapest Film Kft., Neurópa Film Kft
Original title Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál!
Directors Miklós Jancsó
Writers Ferenc Grunwalsky, Gyula Hernádi, Miklós Jancsó

Cast

Zoltán Mucsi

as Kapa

Péter Scherer

as Pepe

Ildikó Tóth

as Russian girl

Miklós Jancsó

as Himself

Gyula Hernádi

as Himself

Judit Schell

as German officer

István Márton

as Pista

Balázs Galkó

as Galkó

Béla Fesztbaum

as Béla

Emese Vasvári

as Emese

Miklós Székely B.

as Old Hungarian soldier

András Hajós

as Talent scout

András Lovasi

as Himself