Late Season (1967) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1967 · 119 mins · Hungarian

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Directed by

Zoltán Fábri

Starring

Tibor Molnár, Sándor Kőmíves, Károly Kovács, Samu Balázs, János Koltai, Noémi Apor

Kerekes panics that the police are after him after a prank by his friends and returns to his hometown, where he was accused of betraying a Jewish druggist and his wife to the Nazis. His friends follow him, staging a mock trial that convicts him, leading to a suicide attempt. The story unfolds through flashbacks and hallucinations set against the backdrop of the Eichmann trial. The film and its director Antal Pager later drew unwanted publicity from a 1967 Variety article accusing Pager of Nazi collaboration.