GYURI

Gyuri is a young Rom looking for work in the big city. Budapest means action – escalators and hotels for instance. His friends give into homesickness and pull up anchor, but Gyuri persists, eventually meeting other Roma with whom he can converse about the hostile Hungarian society and the low status of his minority group. In his fiction feature debut, Pál Schiffer, who had previously tended to make TV documentaries on socialist subject matter, manages to paint an affirmative portrait of an individual who, together with the film, takes up the struggle against close-mindedness and bigotry.