25 Fireman's Street

(1973)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Year: 1973

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: Hungary

Director: Szabó István

Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Makay Margit, Károly Kovács, Bálint András, Pásztor Erzsi, Edit Lenkey, Csomák Ervin, János Jani, Zoltán Zelk

Plot

On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.