Pelikan Blue

Filmstill Pelikan Blue

Pelikan Blue

Kék Pelikan
László Csáki
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Hungary
2023
80 minutes
Hungarian
Subtitles: 
English
German SDH subtitles
German premiere

It’s Hungary in the early 1990s and Ákos, Petya and Laci, too, are young and need the money. The Iron Curtain has fallen, Europe lies at the friends’ feet, but train tickets to Stockholm, Paris, Berlin or Madrid are almost unaffordable for ordinary people. Far from losing courage, the three develop a clever method to enjoy the new freedom to travel: They forge the official tickets, still handwritten on carbon copy forms, bleaching the carbon ink out with sanitiser, ironing the paper smooth and dry, getting some stamps, researching the operating procedures of the national railway, studying timetables, prices and routes and filling in the boxes on the forms again. And off they go. But that is not the end of the story. A feeling of blind infatuation sets a business idea in motion. How about making these very special tickets available to others in need? One becomes ten, 150 soon become 1,000 – until a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities begins.
László Csáki’s scintillating gangster comedy is loaded with contemporary history. His excellent montage of drawn fiction, authentic film documents and memoirs broadens our view of the suspended years of social upheaval in his Hungarian homeland.


Andreas Körner

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30.10.
#354
CineStar 7
The Car That Came Back from the Sea + Pelikan Blue
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30.10.2024
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The Car That Came Back from the Sea + Pelikan Blue
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01.11.
Hauptbahnhof Osthalle
The Car That Came Back from the Sea + Pelikan Blue

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01.11.2024
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02.11.
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Pelikan Blue
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02.11.2024
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03.11.
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The Car That Came Back from the Sea + Pelikan Blue
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03.11.2024
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
László Csáki
Script
László Csáki
Cinematographer
Árpád Horváth
Editor
Dániel Szabó
Producer
Miklós Kázmér, Ádám Felszeghy
Co-Producer
Réka Temple
Sound Design
Tamás Zányi
Score
Ambrus Tövisházi, Miklós Preiszner
Animation
Attila Fekete, Máté Horesnyi, Gréta Straubinger, Dorottya Tingyela, Orsolya Blanka Tóth, Ádám László, Péter Dörnyei, Szonja Eckert, Fruzsina Eszes, Adrienn Gál, Éva Molnár, Hermann Pasitka, Szandra Pataki, Anna Szöllősi
Animation Technique
2D Digital, Drawn

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Main Contact
Katalin Vajda
kati.vajda@nfi.hu
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
Winner of: Golden Dove Feature-Length Film (International Competition Animated Film)