

The first thing you notice is the silence that isn’t silence at all—just the ghost of clattering press-stones, trolley bells, and the wet hush of the Danube licking its chops. Egy krajcár története, shot in the famine winter of 1917, opens on a close-up so perversely intimate that you can count the pores on the coppe...


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" The first thing you notice is the silence that isn’t silence at all—just the ghost of clattering press-stones, trolley bells, and the wet hush of the Danube licking its chops. Egy krajcár története, shot in the famine winter of 1917, opens on a close-up so perversely intimate that you can count the pores on the copper cheek of a single coin. Director István Bródy and writer Frigyes Karinthy gamble everything on the premise that a krajcár—worth less than half a cent—can carry the moral payload ..."


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