That Lovely Green Grass
1979 · 81 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 545 VOTES · DIR. György Palásthy
Overview
Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.
Dialogue Timeline — 931 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:06 Mafilm Dialog Studio and Hungarian Television presents
00:07:27 - Did you lock it? - The ironer? The water?
00:10:35 - You exchange the signs once again? - That's how they decided up there.
00:13:31 And now comes the greatest sensation of them all: the two Horovaczes, the
00:16:15 - Sons of the air. - I don't want to.
00:18:53 Complete with tiny flowers or without them, as you fancy.
00:21:41 Tomorrow.
00:25:16 - That boy, isn't he at home? - He is not.
00:28:09 And are these things true, what your dear mother writes here?
00:30:43 Then I'll pass my baton to my successor, then, you know...
00:35:45 Howdy, the insurance assessor has arrived!
00:39:14 Isn't this the predicament you wrote about in the letter?
00:42:41 Can't I tread on wonderful green grass anymore?
00:45:41 - There is enough here. - Gosh, ceramite!
00:48:56 go to the other side at the traffic light...
00:52:36 Gizike, put a seal on it, and hand it back to him.
00:55:46 Well, he did say something, but l don't really remember that, I was
00:58:58 ...sealing a petition!
01:02:05 anyway, so he can move you out too.
01:05:09 apart, but didn't throw anything away.
01:08:44 Well, take care of yourself, my Poldika. The last day.
01:12:17 So do it with feeling! Look at this. See it?
01:15:33 Quickly, men, all out at! Uncle Poldi will come home soon!
01:20:11 They're just flying!