Kontroll
by Nimr?d Antal
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Actor: Csaba Pindroch, Eszter Balla, S?ndor Bad?r, S?ndor Cs?nyi, Zolt?n MucsiDirector: Nimr?d Antal
Cinematographer: Gyula Pados
Writer: Nimr?d Antal
Editor: Istv?n Kir?ly
Producer: Tam?s Hutlassa
Writer: Jim Adler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hungarian (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Movie Reviews of Kontroll
Movie Review: The Subway as the Nether World
Summary: 5 Stars
Scary, funny, charming, exotic, quirky . . . and literally perfect in many ways.
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Summary of Kontroll
The Budapest subway system, the world's oldest, is a dark labyrinthine netherworld as vast and various as the city above. Hordes of people pass through on their way to better, brighter places. There are some who spend most of their lives underground- the ticket inspectors or "Controllers" who are assigned in teams to sections of the system and whose thankless job is to ensure that no passengers ride without paying. Deployed by those in control- they are a much-despised lot.who on his way wants to be stopped and asked for a receipt by petty officers that represent power at its most powerless.The setting of Kontroll is the Budapest subway system, one of the largest and oldest in the world, and a place that becomes an omniscient character in an ambitious film that jumbles dark comedy, slick action, and horror-movie conventions. The other main character is Bulcs? (S?ndor Cs?nyi), part of a team of disheveled ticket inspectors--controllers--who roam the grimy, fluorescent-lit city-under-the-city in a soul-destroying ritual. The job has become such a part of Bulcs? that he never leaves the underground. He has taken to sleeping on empty platforms and getting progressively more unkempt as he accumulates more bruises, bloody noses, and bitterness from his scraps with a variety of unseemly creatures of the night (and day). Among the post-punk, post-communist habitu?s of this subterranean metropolis are a cute girl in a teddy-bear suit, a rival gang of ticket inspectors who like to play a deadly game of chicken with express trains, and a hooded specter who may or may not be pushing people under subway wheels at crowded stops. First-time director Nimr?d Antal keenly juggles black comedy, character types, and genre styles, making the most of the weird angles and inherent dark creepiness of his chosen backdrop. Kontroll keeps pace as a hip, flashy, fast-moving set piece by any international measure. --Ted Fry
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