"DANIEL TAKES A TRAIN" "Directed by Pál Sándor" "Leading players" "Angeli!" "Where are you?" "In a phone booth" "Still alive?" "How are you?" "I'm fine" "Any news of the boys?" "And you?" "The police?" "What?" "Don't you understand me?" "Gyuri, I'm afraid." "Haven't they looked for you yet?" "I've disconnected the doorbell." "Where are you going?" "To my mother, just to say good-bye" "Don't go home" "I'm going away" "Scenario by Zsuzsa Tóth, based on a short story by András Mezei" "Photographed by Elemér Ragályi" "5th December, 1956" "Thanks for coming, Santa Claus" "Come again next year" "We will" "Your voice is like Dániel Szerencsés'" "Go in, you'll catch cold" "Thanks again for coming, Mr. Diestel." "Thanks, lad" "Well, that's that" "In 1943 I got a hundred from them." "Santa Claus is on the decline" "Dani!" "The bread!" "It's hanging on the doorknob, mother" "Good Lord, you do look funny" "Buy your mother a chocolate bar from Santa Claus" "Mother doesn't beleive in Santa Claus" "People beleive in him just as long as they get presents" "They're out" "Even your mother?" "When are they back?" "Coming in?" "Where did they go?" "Does it matter?" "Gyuri Angeli!" "We'll talk later" "They're expecting you" "I understand" "One of your comrades is here" "A comrade?" "He's come three times." "I let him in" "Thank you" "What for?" "Letting him in" "I haven't heard from you in a month." "Where were you?" "What did you?" "I'm a soldier, mother" "But you joined the insurgents" "Gyuri, did you shoot, too?" "You met with your father" "I've only come for a few minu- tes." "Forget what I've been doing" "May I ask..." "No" "Why the hell are you here?" "Have you given up?" "They're rounding everyone up." "Haven't you heard anything?" "They've taken Sas, Szőlősi, Bárdos, Forgács..." "The whole platoon." "Where to?" "I don't know." "Siberia" "I'll kill them" "It's finished" "Mother asks if you can lend us some coffee" "I wish I had some" "You do." "I intended it as a surprise" "Nice?" "Let's undress" "I must be dreaming, Mariann" "You're not" "Don't you love me?" "I do" "But I can barely walk any distance;" "how will I make it?" "I'll carry you on my back" "Sometimes one's strength flags, other times it increases" "I wonder" "Do you want to?" "Yes" "Into the cupboard!" "What's she up to?" "What took so long?" "I was crying, or is that forbidden, too?" "Don't make a scene" "I have a right to cry" "She's a pack of trouble" "Just look at her" "Leave the child alone" "You leave me alone" "Have you eaten?" "I don't want anything" "What are you to me?" "Everything" "Don't upset your mother;" "it'll be a hell before we're through" "I'll make you a cup of tea" "Go away!" "What's up?" "Get going!" "And you go, too!" "To hell!" "I'm going!" "Congratulations" "Have you got the key to the restaurant?" "Of course, I open up every morning" "Give it to me" "What for?" "I had a row with my mother" "I could get into trouble" "I've got to sleep somewhere" "That's right." "Bye-bye" "We'll talk later" "General Goetz," "U.N. Middle East Force commander has flown to Israel for talks concernig the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai desert" "U.N. troops will replace the Israeli forces" "It is reported from Warsaw that the government and leaders of the Catholic Church are discussing the normalisation of Church and state relationships" "Cardinal Wyszynski, who was released from custody in October will probably be travel- ling to the Vatican for talks with the Pope" "There are rumours that the U.N. Secretary General intends to visit Budapest on the 16th" "The Hungarian News Service has been officially informed that as regards the timing of the visit the Hungarian government holds to its letter of 1st December sent to the Secretary General stating the he will be welcome in Budapest at a later date convenient to both parties..." "The Hungarian government has received no official request concerning the date of the visit" "The rumoured date is not acceptable to the Hungarian government and thus the visit will not take place on 16th December" "The Budapest police report cases of unlawful assembly in a few places" "Outside the British and American legations hundreds of people shouted reactionary and Fascist slogans trying to turn public opinion against the Hungarian government" "The militia dispersed the demonstrators" "Thirty-nine people were arrested" "In Buda, provocative elements spread the alarmist rumour that the Soviet Army was rounding up university students in Bercsényi Street" "A crowd shouted anti-Soviet and anti-democratic slogans" "Fascist elements urged terrorist action against a police officer" "The counter-revolutionary elements were quickly dispersed by the militia" "Good morning." "Where's Mariann?" "Why did they leave?" "They're tradespeople, they want their own shop" "Why should Sándor Erdélyi live out his life in the state sector?" "Don't shout, or all the tenants will come here" "What are you doing?" "Stealing?" "You are!" "Take something for yourself" "This was Mariann's; take it as a keepsake" ""Dániel Szerencsés"." "This is for you" ""They made me swear not to tell you." "They're taking me away for good" ""We're going now" ""I'd like to caress you once more" "I love you." "I have to go." "My address..."" "They've gone, too" "How undisciplined people are" "Are you cold?" "No." "Are you?" "Are you crazy?" "You're not even dressed" "What do you mean:" "good morning?" "If the boss finds you here I'll be sacked." "Have you been having a party in here?" "What a pig-sty!" "Don't you try to clear up, I'll do it" "Get dressed and go" "I'm sacked for sure" "Don't say I'm here?" "What does he know?" "Nothing." "He's still a kid" "And what if we're caught?" "What will happen?" "They'll shoot us, won't they?" "They won't hang us" "Can I wash the floor?" "That's my job" "Go ahead, then" "How are you holding that cloth?" "Splash it about" "I love washing floors" "Enjoy it, it's good and dirty" "A butt" "Your hair's wet" ""They're taking me away for good" ""They're yelling at me to go" ""I have to go" ""Dotty Dani"" "What now?" "It's ready now." "Put grandpa back to bed" "He's put on the blanket..." "the tallith" "What will become of me without you?" "People will look up to you" "Who?" "Everybody" "Let's leave grandpa here." "I'll carry you off, mother" "We'll visit you in America." "He'll be 150 and I'll be 110" "I don't feel like praying." "You must, we owe him that much" "For having stolen his gold?" "Yes." "Wear your hat" "Be it according to Thy will, God Eternal" "Lead us on our way in peace, that we go in peace" "Lead us to a place where we may live in peace at last" "Deliver us from enemies, from evil, from wild beasts from the trials and tribulations of this world" "Allow us to find love and mercy in Thine eyes and in the eyes of all who behold" "Merciful God, hear our prayer" "What I could do with a chick like that" "What should I do?" "Where is he?" "He said to meet here" "I've put 1000 forints in." "Put it round your neck" "Where is he?" "Mother, you look that way for Gyuri" "Take care of each other" "Me, of him?" "Going to see your father?" "Do you know where he is?" "You know, too; don't lie" "Don't come so near" "God bless you" "Dani, your lunch!" "Get off quick" "When you get there, send a message through the radio, for the old man." "Zwei Granate..." "The Two Grenadiers, to Grandpa in Garay Street..." "No, there's no need to say the street" "You never know what will happen" "Even if you're famished, don't stuff yourselves, or you'll get jaundice" "So many people in camps got jaundice when the Americans liberated them" "And hide this there's jewels in it" "And keep out of politics, it always leads to trouble." "Never." "Nowhere." "You've Mariann's letter with her Vienna's address?" "Why didn't you learn a language?" "Russian?" "Do you speak any languages?" " French." "Kelenföld station" "Get off now" "Damn!" "Excuse me, I'm getting off" "Mother!" "Gyuri isn't here!" "Have you seen the boy who was here?" "He must have got off" "I want to get off!" "My money's gone" "A thief on the train!" "You want to get off now?" "What's the matter?" "Don't cause a panic" ""Mummy, I don't want to go to America"" ""Pisti, keep quiet!"" "An exhumation" ""Mummy, I don't want to go to America"" ""Pisti, keep quiet and keep swimming"" "Book in at the hotel as soon as we arrive" "Yes, I understand" "My daughter and grandchild are waiting there" "My daughter wrote that I could do it quite openly" "Walk up to the reception desk and check in" "Yes, but I don't have any money" "I can't just walk up" "Stop fidgeting, or I'll prick you." " You wouldn't prick anybody." "Thanks, but it's all right like this" "Give me your coat" "I haven't slept for three weeks." "Let me sleep" "You're young, you'll do all right" "No, I'm not the type." "My name might mean "lucky", but I'm not" "Your name's Szerencsés?" "Dániel Szerencsés" "What a sweet name" "I want to go to Paris, Vienna, London" "It's legal there." "You're whores, that's the trouble." "We're bad whores" "A small Christmas tree" "I'm taking it home for the family" "Where to?" " Olmód" "Will you let the lady in?" "What's up?" "Do you know where we are now?" "I forget the name, though I was a youth camp leader here in 1949" "Children of social origin "X"" "aren't allowed to work on the Pioneer Railway" "She is not allowed to recite in a poetry contest, or anything" "That "X" is worse than being black in America" "Origin: "X", because her mother sews clothes at home" "I'll be a father before long" "You must be careful, let's not stand in this draughty place" "How pretty you are, Magdi" "We turned off the electricity and gas" "Are you sure you did it?" "Where are you going now?" " To Paris" "Don't you like the régime?" "Socialism" "In general I like it" "There's capitalism in Paris" "Yes, and in general I don't like it" "Having fun, comrades?" "Your papers, please." "Take off your glasses" "How about that?" "Take off your glasses" "Take your time" "In your overcoat, perhaps?" "Of course" "We're getting married tomorrow" "Where's the wedding?" "Katafa, our home village" "Close to the border" "I'll be the best man" "Why pick on me?" "What's the idea?" "We ask the questions" "Thank you" "I swear that once I'm over the border, I'll never lie again" "You'll miss it" "We have to lie here, but at least we ought to keep the rules of the game" "Is it a game?" "Every lie should have been accompanied by a wink to show that we know and they know" "And at least they ought to have let us know we're not idiots" "Poor wretches" "Stop talking politics!" "Why go on and on?" "God bless Hungary!" "You, you and you." "Come!" "In Vienna you can get everything" "Nylon stockings, dates, oranges..." "Ever eaten an orange?" "She loves you" "You'll get out, you'll find her" "Someone's ill." "Is there a doctor?" "I'm a doctor" "Mrs. Bakos is dead" "That old girl won't step into a free world" "Forward, Hungarians!" "Destination:" "Vienna!" "Did she die?" "My overcoat!" "Why get off?" "My knee is bleeding" "Why get off?" "My knee is bleeding" "Hold on to me" "Can you walk?" "Yes" "Damn it, what now?" "Don't shout" "First, give back my money" "What money?" "Around your neck!" "Is that what's bothering you?" "I'd forgotten it" "And second..." "Wipe your nose and go home like a good boy" "We're not tied to each other" "Hey!" "Stop!" "You're youth." "We're also youth." "Right?" "Friendship" "You've sucked up nicely." "Now cut it out" "Are we going the right way?" "To Siberia" "Well, here we are again" "We're not defecting with riff- raff, are we?" "Oh, no!" "I'm expecting my mother." "Has the train from Budapest arrived?" "I don't know." "We don't know anything" "Well, yesterday you didn't come with me, so now I'm not taking you across" "How's that?" "We'll report you, Mr. Farkas" "Because I won't smuggle you out?" "To which authority will you report me?" "Go away for a little while" "Where are you going?" "We'll talk later" "But, we've taken a room, so why must you disappear again?" "Sit tight" "Do we have to beg you?" "It's too much, taking advan- tage of such a tragedy" "I thought you'd be in Austria" "So did we." "We were left in woods and told we were in Austria" "Is there hot water in your room?" "No" "My room" "An elderly, blue-eyed, fair-haired woman, Mrs. Bakos." "On the train" "Have you seen her?" "A Mrs. Bakos, elderly, in a fur coat, have you seen her?" "They say you've come back from Austria." "Why?" "Isn't it good?" "Yes, but we're going to and fro to get our money's worth" "What can I do for you, com- rades?" "Let's see the register" "This one, is he here?" "I don't know." "Maybe" "See?" "They've come to arrest me" "If I'm not back by midnight, call my mother" "I'll return to Budapest, I'll tell everyone" "There's no one left to tell" "I'll go to the university" "Everyone you know is in jail" "You'll get into the truck with the others" "I don't want our..." "Police." "Your identity card, please" "Wait till I get my hands on her" "I'll box her ears" "We'll spank her" "That wouldn't be right" "You should know, Marci." "And do you know where she is?" "You're coming with us." "Follow me" "It's dead, can't you hear?" "I'll go and talk to his wife" "Don't do that to me, please" "Don't refuse my help, if there's anything I can do" "What?" "Are you returning to Budapest?" "Why should I?" "You must find someone who can help you." "Shall I give you a phone number?" "A phone number?" "Who are you?" "Do you recognize me?" "It would be more natural if I didn't recognize you" "Nice job." "Do you like it?" "You're leaving the country?" "That's why people from Budapest come here" "You've got a bag, too" "I'd like you to come with me, father" "Come here" "We're going tonight." "Are you coming?" "Aren't you hungry?" "I've got a salami" "I don't want any" "I won't go son" "What a pity." "I was sure you would" "Silly of me" "How's your mother?" "Fine" "She knows you're leaving?" "They both saw me off" "Come on, eat" "Why should I stay?" "You have plenty of time." "Eat" "The way you eat." "Are you ill?" "Shall I bring water for you?" "This is how I eat." "I'm all right" "Which country are you going to?" "You haven't money?" "Anything?" "Give it to me" "Have you fired it?" "Yes" "At whom?" "I don't know you." "I don't know anything about you" "Not since 1950 when you were taken to prison." "Why?" "Treason." "I confessed." "Didn't your mother tell you?" "Yes." "Why didn't you come back home?" "I won't answer." "Why?" "Because I hate questions;" "it's no good your sitting like a judge" "Why did you join the communists?" "Why did the communists jail you?" "Why did the communists devour the communists?" "Careful, Gyuri" "If the communists hadn't made a martyr of me, then your lot would hang me from a tree now" "Why did mother leave you at the first opportunity?" "Why did you leave me with them?" "Why didn't you come for me?" "Why are you here?" "What are you living for?" "I light a fire here." "Sometimes I sleep here" "I'm very calm" "Why don't you come with me?" "We're going to America." "Coming, Dani?" "You're a drag" "We love each other" "Like the fairy-tale orphan" "And it's fairy-tale for him, finding us" "And like a fairy-tale, I left everything for Mariann's sake" "That's marvellous." "What exactly did you leave Dani?" "There's no happiness for us - never will be" "Hear that?" "Now we know" "Well, son, tell me what your favourite book is" "My favourite book?" "I don't know. "Joseph"" "Is that the title?" "Have you read it?" "No" "Does it matter?" "Are we risking everything at our age just for this?" "At the last moment you take up with this wretched boy" "Why wretched?" "What lesson can be drawn from that book which can be useful in life?" "What for?" "What for?" "Useful in life?" "It's impossible to answer; the question's been wrongly put" "How could you do that to me?" "I've done nothing" "Then tell him to clear off at once" "Why do you torment her?" "Say something!" "I torment my daughter" "The point is: you're a very poor boy" "You've nothing and no one out there, as far as I know" "It's nothing to be ashamed of, but why not set out by yourself?" "Face the world alone and I'll raise my hat to you" "But this way..." "have you paid your fare, or must I do that, too?" "I have paid it, and the fare for Gyuri Angeli, too" "I need no one's help and I won't be a burden;" "I'm going to work very hard" "I'm hardworking and I'm healthy" "And I'm not a fool" "No one said you were" "And I don't think you're right that one should be alone." "For Marianne I'd..." "She's sixteen" "I'll wait" "There's an apt example in the book." "Joseph served fourteen years for Rachel" "The whiz-kid's holding forth" "I have to find Gyuri Angeli" "What about champagne?" "Who are you?" "The cleaner" "Get out of here" "What did you pay for the room?" "Today it's on me" "I don't care about money, it's my room" "It's on me." "Join the fun, since you're here" "I'm not going to budge" "When will I get a girl from Budapest?" "Are you jealous?" "Jealous, my foot!" "My engineering degree is worth nothing out there" "I've forgotten everything I knew." "You'll go to university" "Which one?" "Haven't you ever wanted to do anything except champion freedom?" "Never mind, you'll have to study" "I'll wash cars." "I can cook, too" "Szerencsés from the third floor is with me, the one who stammered" "Does he still stammer?" "No" "I'll provide for him too" "Stop it, are you drunk?" "It's a pity it'll soon be over" "What?" "Our pretending to be engaged, you and me" "Are you joking?" "Don't you want to marry me?" "No" "Did I hurt you?" "I was joking" "You should know I only came because of you" "That's not true" "It is" "Listen, I'm a very ugly girl" "I'm convinced" "Where is Mr. Farkas?" "In his room, 102" "In the old days you had sweets in your pocket" "I'm going up to pay your fare" "All right?" "I've seen your husband" "Where?" "They took him in a jeep" "How did he look?" "You shouldn't spend the night here" "When's the baby due?" "We expected it in April" ""Expected"?" "You'll have it." "It will be as fine as you both are" "He didn't want to defect;" "I pushed him into it" "May I sit with you?" "Good evening, Mr Erdélyi" "Freedom's greeting, Comrade Angeli" "Where's all your hair, Engineer?" "My hair?" "Why are you here?" "I'm leaving with my son" "We're taking Dani." "Do you know him?" "How strange" "Remember your words in 1949 when your party forced me out of my shop empty-handed?" "I don't remember" "He doesn't remember" "The kids have grown up" "I haven't introduced our friends" "Mr. Angeli worked for the Ministry of the Interior" "He had power over life and death then" "I don't remember that, either" "We "class aliens" dreaded you, as did all the tenants" "Until one fine day the big black car arrived" "And for you that was a fine day." "I see" "Why?" "Wasn't it you the police took away?" "That's it." "Paul into Saul" "Who's Saul?" "Neither crook, nor saint" "Nor engineer, either" "I'm a car-washer whose son has come for him one fine day" "His grown up, handsome son" "Sit down, Mr. Angeli" "We'll have a hard night" "Come and dance, Sándor." "I'm a little tipsy" "He's had it" "A fine day" "There's a treasure in this head;" "Play "John Brown's Body"" "Neither can we eat enough to keep us on the go" "We aren't distinguished and we haven't any dough" "Neither can we eat enough to keep us on the go" "But we're building a new world on a stomach that's hollow" "And that's the finest job of all!" "Stop!" "It's driving me mad!" "It's like seeing my father again." "I know he's yours, really" "He's mine" "Great!" "All together!" "Hungarians!" "Let's make our way home!" "We're having fun, aren't we?" "Spontaneously" "What's he want of you?" "He's a worm" "I'm not afraid anymore." "Look around." "No one's afraid" "You'll always be afraid." "Abroad, too" "Never." "We love each other and we three will see the world" "What are we going to do?" "See the world" "They'll have the militia down on us." "Stop this" "Me?" "You'll clear off and I'll be left in the lurch" "That's for sure" "Go in" "I won't" "Give me a cigarette" "Shut up!" "This revolution's all we need" "Counter-revolution!" "To hell with it!" "Calm down, or I'll clear off without taking them, then they'll kill you" "Give us a smile" "Why so cheerful?" "What do you want of me?" "We don't know each other's name." "I'm Iván Kapás" "All right, we can keep toge- ther, we can travel together" "Fine, but give us a smile" "You're pretty" "May I kiss you?" "So many desires come to nothing" "When are we leaving?" "Never?" "Don't eat so much" "Kapás is here" "I've seen him" "I'll talk to him" "You won't" "I must" "What business do you have with a murderer?" "What's that about a murderer?" "What do you want of him?" "To ask why communists devoured communists" "Who's a murderer?" "Nobody" "A gentleman." "Once I was convinced we two were brothers, friends, comrades" "I'm scared" "Is this a secret police reunion?" "What did you say?" "Nothing, I'm rambling" "Excuse me" "Were you in the secret police?" "These people think that about anyone who lives for something other than money" "To hell with them." "The trucks will soon be here" "I only want you to talk to me" "We paid for the tickets, let's watch the show" "What cargo are you taking, Captain?" "Newspapers." "The latest editions" "Nobody and nothing." "Two pairs of pants and a towel" "I need nothing from here" "What cargo are you taking, Captain?" "Potassium cyanide" "What cargo are you taking, Captain?" "My party card;" "I've had it since 1945" "What did you do to him?" "To good old Angeli?" "I denounced him" "For being a traitor to country and party" "I got him to the gallows." "Have I made myself clear?" "They didn't swing him, the idiots, so now he's sitting here" "What do you know about such things?" "Clear off, please" "At last!" "I've been carrying your coat since we left the train" "So you have found your girl and your friend, too" "He's a hangman; he'll follow me and do me in" "They pour out their rotten lives, then do us in for listening" "They won." "Why doesn't he stay at home?" "Ask him, lovely lady" "What cargo are you taking, Captain?" "Is this provocation?" "No, it's singing" "What cargo?" "Tell me" "What are you grinning at?" "Why not?" "I've bid farewell to so many, but I stay here" "I'll live and die here, you choose freedom" "Pardon." "Odious capitalism" "Trash!" "All the trash that's gathered here" "He's going" "Don't hang on to me" "What cargo are you taking, Captain?" "My sick husband." "Out there they're bound to cure him" "The food's getting cold." "We have to eat it" "Before leaving table my uncle always used to say:" ""What's been paid for must be eaten"" "The Rákóczi March" "The signal." "The trucks are here The worst will soon be over" "Secret police, through and through" "Are you secret police, too?" "Like rats." "Can't you be exterminated?" "Go to the wall!" "Father, stop it!" "Hands up!" "Me?" "Gyurka, is that your son?" "Get out of this country" "But without me, Gyuri" ""You ought to be here now..."" "Your mother is not well, Mariann" "Good-bye" "What do you want?" "How did you get this coat?" "The kid left it." "He went back to Budapest" "What an idiot." "He left this letter, too" "How did he go?" "By train" "Don't take the hat" "If he want back, he'll need it" "Buy me wine and I'll tell you what life is like in the free world" "Damn you!" "Is that the Budapest train?" "Lie down" "What's in it?" "Butter" "I'm not staying here" "I am" "Got the jewels?" "Where are you going?" "We'll talk later" "Gyuri!" "Help!" "Gyuri!"