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Hmmm... My favourite! Péter Timár's best work. He tried to copy the feeling several times since then (1985!!!).

The film is a sarcastic but charming point of view about the communist era in the 70's or 80's. The banning of eroticism, the concept of pointless producing at all costs. The manager and the supervising fireman of the box factory lure customers by installing a fire-protection camera system throughout the factory including the women's dressing room. But when the ladies find it out...

The strange camera handling (most of the shots and the movements are filmed backwards, and then reversed, giving the characters a funny behaviour) and the non-realistic conversations and phrases make the film extraordinary and funny. Most of the ideas in the film were contrived during the filming by the whole crew. And let's not forget about the great actors who make this film complete and perfect!

This movie not just different because of its story, which tells us about a wooden box factory in the 50s of Hungary and the little tricks the leaders do with their power. This movie is different because it is filmed in a very special way (the speed of the movie is varying) and the actors talk in a very surrealistic way, using non-existent, twisted words very similar to real ones, like using an extreme accent. The movie is funny, sometimes a little too much of it, which made me feel that it's overplayed and the situations are exaggerated to infinity. Still, it gives a good touch of the "communist" era of eastern europe. Oh, and don't expect erotic shots. There are almost no naked bodies in the movie. But we all _know_ they are there!

I can't rate this....the 0 is missing....this is shame of Hungarian movies.