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To be honest, the hungarian cinema is in great trouble now. So I don't really look hungarian films... new ones, first of all. But after i sew yesterday this two-part 1972 masterpiece, i was just sitting in my chair, smoking a cigarette. In silence. The plot (an adaptation of the novel of Endre Fejes) is very simple: a "dark costumed guy" pretends to be a Greek attaché to pick up girls and to make himself believe that life is more than just gray every-days. He gets the girls, engage them... and then disappear. What rests is only his fake name: Victor Edmond. All this goes till the day he meets a girl who he falls in love with. It's a simple direction, but full with great literature-citates, full with great situations. The novel is written in an era of communism, so it has a hidden critical aspect too. But now, 18 years after the death of the hungarian dictature - this film is still alive. It has a great connection with the Greek fate-tragedies, and on some points (it's a coincidence, but it's interesting) with the book The Talendted Mr. Ripley. Gabor Harsanyi is this days a comedy actor, and not so good in this genre, so i was really surprised how sensitive and nice he does play this role of Victor. The film is full with No. 1. actors of that and this time: Mari Törőcsik, Nóra Tábori, Teri Tordai, Klári Tolnay, Gábor Koncz, Ferenc Kállai. It is a very nice surprise of the hungarian cinema, a must-see-hungarian-film.