I don't know whether this movie runs in non-Hungarian countries, but it's probably the kind of movie which is best when you know the country, or at least the "eastern-european life". The center of the movie is a food shop in a caravan in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Hungary, and the locals who live their life, do their business there or just hang around to spend the days, and where every day is just the same... but different. Everybody is real and fighting for survival... and they're unreal as much as the world is. (I've just seen "Clerks" and the movie reminded me of "that day" there, when "everything just happens".) This is one of the best Hungarian movies nowadays (doesn't contain politics and doesn't revolve around sex, truly an exception). Watch it.
6 Reviews
Funny movie with good actors
lmortin16 April 2004
Funny movie about some guys whose hang around a caravan canteen named Üvegtigris and live their life with many comic situations as it can happen with anybody here.
Why I really like this movie that there's a strong (of course excessive)satirical aspect in it to show some typical characters from the real life and their comics.
I agree with Grin, this is a new hope for the Hungarian film. Also I mean it doesn't contain a heavy-hearted or dramatic line what is there in many other Hungarian films in the last decades.
Probably we shall learn again how to make light movies only for the entertainment.
Why I really like this movie that there's a strong (of course excessive)satirical aspect in it to show some typical characters from the real life and their comics.
I agree with Grin, this is a new hope for the Hungarian film. Also I mean it doesn't contain a heavy-hearted or dramatic line what is there in many other Hungarian films in the last decades.
Probably we shall learn again how to make light movies only for the entertainment.
A curved mirror of the Hungarian reality
nightsirensmusic12 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This Hungarian hoax-cult film is truly unique as like we should say in Hungarian an unicum. The characters and also the story line, both draws about the Hungarian reality of the '90s. The main actor and director of this movie is Rudolf Péter, as on the screen called 'Lali'. He presents his humorous and unfortunate fate in a Hungarian village. 'Lali' tries to figure out his life, rather unlikely with less success because he has never get peaceful life, something was always happening around him. Lali is running a mobile-food truck business in the middle of nowhere, try to help for his friends but bad luck pursues him every time. For example he sold a winner lottery ticket and as he has got his dream car (after more years delay) it has been destroyed by a truck before he was able to drive it at the first time.
This film ranks the biggest names of the Hungarian film and theatre industry. Absolutely tireless, genius cult film filled with characters who would carry a movie on their backs so together, it is frantic what they do! Chocy (Chocolate), Gaben or Fox's speeches are wall-to-wall, one-liners that can be quoted, and then there's Kálloy Molnár's iconic cabinet-building in the role of the stupid buyer, and the icing on the cake is Lajos Otto as Sanyi, who is worth every minute of gold.
Highly recommend 'Üvegtigris' to anyone who wants to have a nostalgic experience for the socialist era of the 1990s. It is a very divisive film but most Hungarians like it.
Due to the scenes on the shield, it is not recommended for the younger age group.
This film ranks the biggest names of the Hungarian film and theatre industry. Absolutely tireless, genius cult film filled with characters who would carry a movie on their backs so together, it is frantic what they do! Chocy (Chocolate), Gaben or Fox's speeches are wall-to-wall, one-liners that can be quoted, and then there's Kálloy Molnár's iconic cabinet-building in the role of the stupid buyer, and the icing on the cake is Lajos Otto as Sanyi, who is worth every minute of gold.
Highly recommend 'Üvegtigris' to anyone who wants to have a nostalgic experience for the socialist era of the 1990s. It is a very divisive film but most Hungarians like it.
Due to the scenes on the shield, it is not recommended for the younger age group.
A truly great Hungarian movie
maczelkalaci7 January 2006
The Hero in Hungary does not arrive driving a super-car like a red Ferrari: he rides a Babetta, a Czechoslovakian funny motorcycle. But he is really riding in style. I really liked this movie and this was (as you may suspect) not because it had great technical solutions or unusual movie experiments in it. It was excellent because you do believe what the characters say or think, from the first take till the very last one Üvegtigris makes you aware of the ironic Hungarian world we are surrounded with. And even though it represents 'the great Hungarian reality' it never fails to be funny and make you think. In one word: this movie is a must see and I hope it will be known by vast audiences abroad soon.
Not a big deal
aron-269 January 2006
As I am from Hungary I have heard many people saying better and better things about Üvegtigris so far, but actually I don't understand the reason of all the fuss.
I liked many points of the movie, some of the quotes really cheered me up, but the stereotyped characters are present again, like in every Hungarian film, and the story is also pretty dull. I liked the first half, but then I started to get bored, and then I found the whole film just BORING.
Rudolf Péter is good as always, Reviczky is brilliant also, but the others are just there... doing nothing.
How many years still have to pass for a GOOD Hungarian film???
I liked many points of the movie, some of the quotes really cheered me up, but the stereotyped characters are present again, like in every Hungarian film, and the story is also pretty dull. I liked the first half, but then I started to get bored, and then I found the whole film just BORING.
Rudolf Péter is good as always, Reviczky is brilliant also, but the others are just there... doing nothing.
How many years still have to pass for a GOOD Hungarian film???
Good actors - bad & boring movie
koxanpetra24 July 2005
This movie was boring!
Yes, there are a few funny moments and jokes, but you cannot base a whole movie on that!
The characters are too stereotyped, there is no real story - but short episodes with freaky side-characters, who are not freaky enough to make the plot genuine.
Shame, because most of the actors are acknowledged in Hungary, a mystery why they took the roles.
This is *not* a new hope for the Hungarian film. It was boring, though it was meant to be genuine or unique. They could have tried much more harder than this... 2 out of 10
Yes, there are a few funny moments and jokes, but you cannot base a whole movie on that!
The characters are too stereotyped, there is no real story - but short episodes with freaky side-characters, who are not freaky enough to make the plot genuine.
Shame, because most of the actors are acknowledged in Hungary, a mystery why they took the roles.
This is *not* a new hope for the Hungarian film. It was boring, though it was meant to be genuine or unique. They could have tried much more harder than this... 2 out of 10
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