The House Under the Rocks

1959 · 96 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 363 VOTES · DIR. Károly Makk

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Overview

Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.

Dialogue Timeline — 533 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:31 HOUSE UNDER THE ROCKS
00:03:38 Even though you lost the war, but to hell with it...
00:09:40 I'll warm up some food!
00:13:22 Good morning, Tera!
00:15:06 It only belonged to the Count, nobody else!
00:17:12 Here's some good fresh milk, Ferenc! Drink!
00:21:21 And by the next one, Ferenc will be around, too!
00:24:23 I'm not going!
00:30:12 He would need a mother!
00:33:15 Zsuzsa! Come here!
00:37:20 the rest is your job.
00:42:27 I don't want to live here!
00:45:55 Take that picture down from there! That's the place for MY bed!
00:50:47 I'll just check if the child is covered with the blanket!
00:54:30 They'll be given rich lands on the other side. The kind they have never seen before!
00:56:22 Ferenc always wanted one like this.
00:59:25 When it grows on a rocky mountain.
01:02:28 - We'll have a house in the spring, don't you worry! - In the spring?
01:09:51 Where were you then? Eh? Where were you then?
01:12:03 Slaps? To hit that woman?
01:15:58 Well, what is it, Zsuzsa? Are you waiting for me?
01:19:20 Applications are accepted on the 20th day of the month, in the morning, at the site.
01:26:00 Zsuzsa!
01:31:58 THE END.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed533
Dialogue density5.6 lines / min
First line00:00:31
Final line01:31:58

Production Record

DirectorKároly Makk
LanguageHU
IMDb votes363