Miscalculation

  • Hungary Emelet
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Hungary, 2006, 103 min

Based on:

Imre Kertész (book)
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Hoffmann, the immensely rich owner of a network of department stores is a gourmand, fond of his family. His son, however, would like to belong to young people who want to liquidate the half-legal Floor, the office annihilating those opposing the regime. Learning about this by secretly reading the diary of his son, the father conceives a conspiracy, in order to enable his son to experience rational acting. The Hoffmann-boy is taken to the Floor, where he is tortured. The father goes to collect him and reveals the secret: the conspiracy consists of nothing but coded recipes. The leader of the Floor won't have any jokes, and therefore Hoffmann, too, is tortured. The under-secretary of state proposes to feign an accident in order to get rid of them. The Floor gets liquidated, the employee in charge of torture is sentenced to death, while the leader has left for some unknown place. (Hungarotop)

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