Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

Overview

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

Cast

Zoltán Mucsi

Kapa

Péter Scherer

Pepe

Ildikó Tóth

Russian Girl

Miklós Jancsó

Miklós Jancsó

Gyula Hernádi

Gyula Hernádi

Judit Schell

German Officer

N/A

István Márton

Pista

Balázs Galkó

Galkó

Béla Fesztbaum

Béla

Emese Vasvári

Emese

Székely B. Miklós

Old Hungarian Soldier

András Hajós

Talent Scout