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Chickenhead

10/17/1986

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0hr 0min

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Drama

STORY

It is a tragedy, set among low-lifes on the outskirts of Budapest. Dramatic Exchange describes it as "Widely considered to be the most important Hungarian play of the last 20 years". The odd title of the play refers in the first instance to the chicken heads that an old woman feeds to her cat. However, it can also be taken to refer more broadly to the obtuse behaviour of the main characters in the play. The play is an odd mixture of pathos and nihilism, written against the bleak background of Stalinist totalitarianism from which Hungary was emerging. As with much modern drama, there is no hero in the play. The only noble behaviour that one can find belongs to one of the characters in the past, when he was a child, but he is no longer as he was. The hint that what once existed might be achieved again is the only faint ray of hope in a very bleak view of the human condition.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hilda Gobbi
  • Zoltán Papp
  • Erika Bodnár
  • Vajda László
  • Zoltán Varga

    Director

  • Gábor Zsámbéki

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Hungary

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Hilda Gobbi

    Vénasszony

    Zoltán Papp

    Tanár

    Erika Bodnár

    Nő

    Vajda László

    Apa

    Zoltán Varga

    Srác

    Vilmos Vajdai

    Haver

    Dénes Ujlaki

    Törzs

    Károly Eperjes

    Közeg

    Mária Ronyecz

    Előadónő

    Ágnes Zsíros

    Csitri