The Prefab People ( Panelkapcsolat )

The Prefab People (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Panelkapcsolat
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
76 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Béla Tarr

Written By:
Béla Tarr

Actors:
Judit Pogány ..... Feleség
Róbert Koltai ..... Férj
Kyri Ambrus ..... énekesnõ
Jánosné Bráda ..... Gyerek
János Fábián ..... Tanárnõ
Péter Gellért ..... Mûvezetõ
Tivadar Gál
Barna Mihók
Adrián Nagy
Gábor P. Koltai
László Sinkó
Józsefné Sothó
Istvánné Szabó
Tibor Tóth
András Udvarhelyi
László Varga
László Vágyi

Synopsis:

Suffering from economic hardships that slowly rip apart their once harmonious relationship, a married couple (Judit Pogany and Robert Koltai) struggle to keep everything together - yet the husband becomes increasingly passive and the wife increasingly strident as time goes by. Their difficulties are created and portrayed by the spontaneous reactions of the actors themselves, following outlines of the story rather than the memorized lines of a scripted scenario. With minimal editing and direct sound that includes the noise of the camera, the black-and-white realism is rather bleak, reflecting the current state of their once caring relationship.

Tarr's portrait of a young, working-class married couple brings us close to the raw emotions brought forth as the mysteries of love unravel. The chronicle of their love's rise and fall is told in moving flashback, working back from the day that bearish Férj (Róbert Koltai) packs up and leaves his fed-up wife Feleség (Judit Pogány). Set in the 'prefab' apartment blocks of government housing, Tarr's story is at once a clear-eyed look at a relationship and a no-nonsense sketch of a place and time.

The last and often referred to as the best of the early films by the great Béla Tarr, this is a poignant tale of a young couple struggling to hold together a failing marriage in the face of poverty.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 March, 2014.

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