Hunger in Hungary - real starvation, intellectual famine - is the glue of the three instalments in Szeressük egymást gyerekek (Love Each Other), an episodical feature with contributions from three distinguished Hungarians directors - Pál Sándor, Károly Makk, and Miklás Jancsó Symptomatically it was intended to include a fourth sequence, from János Rózsa, but the budget ran dry, so instead he produced the film.

The idea originated from newspaper articles about the situation of Budapest at the end of the millennium. Sándor's Ég a város, ég a ház is (Fire! Fire!) is set on the fringe of society, where hunger is quite physical - tramps fight for a piece of bread.

In Makk's Magyar Pizza, the need for food becomes the reason for mass murder. Jancsó's A nagy agyhalál (The Great Braindeath) deals with intellectual starvation and loss of cultural values caused by television, "which has forced human beings back into the trees, where they are part of a 300-part soap opera."

Set among marginal characters in railway stations and amusement arcades, in front of brightly-lit shop windows and inside shady bars, Szeressük egymást gyerekek attempts an apocalyptic vision of the near future, although in three very different styles.

Jørn Rossing Jensen

Prod co: Objektív Stúdió

Prod: János Rózsa

Dirs: Pál Sándor, Károly Makk, Miklós Jancsó

Scr: Ysuzsa Tóth, Pál Sándor, Károly Makk, Sándor Fábry, Miklós Jancsó

Ph: Tamás Sas,

Gábor Medvigy, János Kende

Eds: Teri Losonczi, Mária Rigó, Zsuzsa Csákány

Music: Gábor Presser, László Melis

Cast: Enikö Eszenyi, Hedi Temessy, Károly Eperjes, Gyula Benkö, György Cserhalmi, István Iglódi

Running time: 95 mins

International sales: S-Media 2000

Screening: 28 June, 15.00, KCP-Kongressovy

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