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still Twenty Hours (Húsz óra) (Zoltán Fábri, HU 1965)

Twenty Hours

Zoltán Fábri / HU, 1965 / 114 min.

Twenty Hours is a bitter, shocking drama about a reporter who tries to unravel what exactly happened in a Hungarian village in 1956. New 4K restoration.

poster Twenty Hours (Húsz óra) (Zoltán Fábri, HU 1965)

Why did Anti Balogh shoot his best friend? And why did state security policeman Sándor Varga murder his childhood friend? A reporter arrives in a village to unravel what exactly happened there in 1956. He stops by every home to talk to people and encounters one tragedy after another. He slowly starts to realise how politics destroyed many friendships.

4K restoration (by the National Film Institute Hungary)

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Director

Zoltán Fábri

Production year

1965

Country

HU

Original title

Húsz óra

Length

114 min.

Language

Hungarian

Subtitles

ENG

Format

DCP

Part of

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Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.

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