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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329037123
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 2004
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 82186
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The most poetic film of Szabo
An old house on the eve of its demolition. A hot summer night. The perfect moment to evoke fragments of past events, hopes, dreams and vanished dreams.
Curiously, this nostalgic script has many resemblances with other two contemporaries movies; Pierre Granier Deferre's Le chat (1973) and Tarkovsky's The mirror (1974).
Rating:  - A surreal survey of 20th century Hungarian history
An old apartment building in Budapest is being torn down and its former residents recall memorable events in their lives associated with that address.
Istvan Szabo, the film's director (famous for his "Mephisto"), claims "25 Firemans Street" was not meant to be surreal or fantastic -- but that's exactly how it comes off. Scenes shift between dreams and reality . . . the dead converse with the living (or is it vice-versa?) and time melts back and forth between pre-War times, Nazi-era ... Read More
Rating: - Bringing Down the House
There's a demolition set for the following morning as a family (consisting of actors; Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Karoly Kovacs, Janos Janl, Edit Lenkey, and Zoltan Zelk) spend one last night in their home. Everyone seems to be having difficulty sleeping as each has dreams of the memories the house brings.
There's an old saying, "out with the old and in with the new", and it's what is at the heart of Istvan Szabo's film.
The movie is primarily flashbacks going through ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Unless You Only Like "Hollywood Formula" Films
Interesting to see that at the point I voted for this film on the Internet movie database (IMDB) roughly one-third of those who voted gave this movie a 10 -- and yet the votes of the other two-thirds people has held the voting down to an average under 5. Clearly -- to me -- a sign that most people watching this film "just didn't get it."
I cannot blame them too much. People unfamiliar with watching movies with a high amount of visual symbolism and with a unique slant might just not know ... Read More
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