BOHOC A FALON

It is raining cats and dogs on Balaton. Two boys seek shelter in an isolated country house, but they find out that they are not alone. Kiki, another youth, is hidden there. The owners of the house and their guests arrive suddenly. The three boys hide in a little room and they wonder how they can escape from there. Two of them manage to squeeze themselves out through a hole in the roof, but Kiki gets stuck and has to remain inside. So, the other two invite him to tell stories to pass the time away. They realize their teenage experiences - their arguments with their parents, their jokes, their starting the university, the face of a young woman classmate, and another woman who is seven years' older and perhaps a first love. Kiki tells of the farm where he spent his childhood and where his most lasting memories were stamped upon him. Just like at that time, Kiki draws the shape of a clown on the bare walls. It is dawn…

"'Long live freedom!' shouts the young hero of the film, staring arrogantly into the camera against the background of his parents' tastefully decorated apartment with its Herend porcelain and catalogued books. 'Long live freedom!' shouts Pal Sandor, a director at his first film, looking at the critic against the background of great cinema with its catalogued quality predecessors and instruments. This suffocating, basically happy, and rambling film is characterized by its challenging stance, its adolescent experience of freedom. It is not characterized by its thoughts but by its muscles, its atmosphere, and its emotional freedom." (Vera Létay, "Filmvilag", 1/5/1968)

Director: Pal Sandor.
Screenplay: Zsusa Toth, Pal Sandor.
Director of photography: Janos Zsombolyal.
Music: Zdenko Tamassy.
Cast and characters: Gabor Ferenczi (Kiki), Bal`zs Tardy (Andras), Miklos Szúrdi (Péter), Vera Venczel (la ragazza).
Production company: MaFilm (Studio 3), Budapest.