A tanu(The Witness)

Directed by: Peter Bacso

Life of Peter Bacso:

• Born in Kosice,

• He studied at the College of Theater

• He wrote many lyrics especially for his films

His Movies

• The Witness

It’ s simple in summer

But who are the Lumnitzer sisters?

• Jerks and Bandits

The story of the film

• The story is set in 1950

• The main character is Jozsef Pelikan

• "Dezső must die" • The minister fell in

the water • Pelikan spoils

everything

• He met with Csetneky • Pelikán tries to find his

friend in the ministry

• Pelikán works as the director of the spa

• Finally Pelikán spoils everything, and he tells the truth, and he is arrested for years

The meaning of the film

• This movie is about a normal Hungarian person and his life in the ages of the Communism.

• It is a parody of the rules and the political situation in Communism

The reaction of the audience

• A film made especially interest in the audience

• In the year of screening in 1981, in the festival of films at Cannes it made great success, for now it is the basis of film production in Hungary.

About the future:

• The film assigned many movies which have greate success in Hungary and abroad

• This film was made to a theater performance

• It was digitalized in 2002