FLUKE

The inhabitants of a Hungarian village on the border with Austria discover an oil pipeline running beneath the local cemetery. They waste no time in drilling a hole in the pipe, and as the illegal oil barons’ business booms their sleepy village seems to be coming back to life. The villagers conceal their point of illicit access beneath the coffin of local eccentric István, who now enjoys the dubious privilege of daily interment. After the police and the distressed Austrian oil company get wise to the scam, the situation escalates. The villagers put up barricades, the broadcasting van of a TV station gets blown up – at some point, even a helicopter is deployed. A fairytale-like comedy of individual dreams and communal bliss, told in dynamic images with no shortage of affectionately exaggerated local colour.