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''Cat's Play'' is a 1974 film from Hungary directed by Karoly Makk.
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''Cat's Play'' (Macskajáték) is a 1974 film from Hungary directed by Karoly Makk.
''Cat's Play'' (Macskajáték) is a 1974 film from Hungary directed by Karoly Makk.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring rain outside when Erzsi, who herself just narrowly escaped suicide by pills, gets a telegram informing her that Giza has died.
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* DeskSweepOfRage: Erzsi responds to the sight of her lover Viktor and her friend Paula having dinner together, by yanking back the tablecloth, sending all the food on the table flying.
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** The rather silly moment where Erzsi carefully opens the door, and looks to see whether the coast is clear before letting Viktor out of her apartment, isrepeated.repeated.
** Played for drama later, as the scene where Erzsi rips open a curtain to catch Viktor and Paula together (she was in the dentist's office, separated only by a curtain), and then rips the tablecloth off sending the food flying, is repeated twice.
** The rather silly moment where Erzsi carefully opens the door, and looks to see whether the coast is clear before letting Viktor out of her apartment, is
** Played for drama later, as the scene where Erzsi rips open a curtain to catch Viktor and Paula together (she was in the dentist's office, separated only by a curtain), and then rips the tablecloth off sending the food flying, is repeated twice.
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* VisualTitleDrop: The title doesn't have much to do with the story, but Erzsi does have a cat, a tabby which is seen from time to time giving her inscrutable stares.
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* DisturbedDoves: A flock of pigeons is seen flying away from Giza's chair by the cliff, as Erzsi gets word by telegram that her sister died during the operation.
* DrivenToSuicide: A flashback reveals that Giza and Erzsi's father killed himself, after being humiliated by a White officer during the civil wars in Hungary that followed World War I.
* DrivenToSuicide: A flashback reveals that Giza and Erzsi's father killed himself, after being humiliated by a White officer during the civil wars in Hungary that followed World War I.
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* LoveTriangle: A December-December-December version. It's eventually revealed that Viktor is also seeing Paula, a mutual friend of Viktor and Enzsi's that lives in the same building. Erzsi is enraged when she finds out.
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* TimeShiftedActor: Younger actors play Erzsi, Giza, and Viktor in the flashback scenes to their youth.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are many flashbacks to the sisters when they were young decades ago. Many show them cavorting in the lakeside resort of Leta with a young Viktor. Others show Erzsi going off alone to see Viktor in a performance.
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* AsYouKnow: Erzsi, feeling the need to defend herself as she continues to dye her hair red in old age, says "Our dear mother had red hair."
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Between Erzsi and Viktor, both now in their seventies. Towards the end Erzsi reveals that it's a matter of {{Old Flame}}s reuniting, that she and Viktor were lovers when they were young and continued their relationship even after she got married. Erzsi only broke it off back in the day after her husband had a health scare and came out of a life-or-death surgery.
* EpistolaryNovel: A rare cinematic example. The bulk of the movie, at least two-thirds, consists of letters going back-and-forth between Giza and Erzsi. The letters are heard in voiceover, sometimes describing flashbacks, sometimes describing what is going on in the present day, like when Erzsi writes her sister a letter about how she confronted Viktor for cheating on her with Paula.
* {{Flashback}}: There are many flashbacks to the sisters when they were young decades ago. Many show them cavorting in the lakeside resort of Leta with a young Viktor. Others show Erzsi going off alone to see Viktor in aperformance.performance.
* KidsAreCruel: The teenaged girls in Erszi's choir group decide to screw with her by singing horribly off-key in a performance for the school's headmaster. This is bad for Erzsi, because the schoolmaster has already been pushing her to retire.
* ReluctantRetiree: The headmaster of the school where Erzsi works as a choir teacher is pushing her to retire and take a pension. Erzsi doesn't want to, and says that ''he'' should retire (the headmaster is a good 30 years younger than she is).
* RepeatCut: The rather silly moment where Erzsi carefully opens the door, and looks to see whether the coast is clear before letting Viktor out of her apartment, is repeated.
* SwingLowSweetHarriet: An unusual twist on this trope shows an ''empty'' swing, still swinging back and forth, as Giza and Erzsi remember their happy memories of the past vacationing by the sea at Leta.
* VoiceoverLetter: Nonstop throughout. The majority of the movie is letters going back and forth between Giza and Erzsi, read in voiceover as they describe what is going on in their lives.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Between Erzsi and Viktor, both now in their seventies. Towards the end Erzsi reveals that it's a matter of {{Old Flame}}s reuniting, that she and Viktor were lovers when they were young and continued their relationship even after she got married. Erzsi only broke it off back in the day after her husband had a health scare and came out of a life-or-death surgery.
* EpistolaryNovel: A rare cinematic example. The bulk of the movie, at least two-thirds, consists of letters going back-and-forth between Giza and Erzsi. The letters are heard in voiceover, sometimes describing flashbacks, sometimes describing what is going on in the present day, like when Erzsi writes her sister a letter about how she confronted Viktor for cheating on her with Paula.
* {{Flashback}}: There are many flashbacks to the sisters when they were young decades ago. Many show them cavorting in the lakeside resort of Leta with a young Viktor. Others show Erzsi going off alone to see Viktor in a
* KidsAreCruel: The teenaged girls in Erszi's choir group decide to screw with her by singing horribly off-key in a performance for the school's headmaster. This is bad for Erzsi, because the schoolmaster has already been pushing her to retire.
* ReluctantRetiree: The headmaster of the school where Erzsi works as a choir teacher is pushing her to retire and take a pension. Erzsi doesn't want to, and says that ''he'' should retire (the headmaster is a good 30 years younger than she is).
* RepeatCut: The rather silly moment where Erzsi carefully opens the door, and looks to see whether the coast is clear before letting Viktor out of her apartment, is repeated.
* SwingLowSweetHarriet: An unusual twist on this trope shows an ''empty'' swing, still swinging back and forth, as Giza and Erzsi remember their happy memories of the past vacationing by the sea at Leta.
* VoiceoverLetter: Nonstop throughout. The majority of the movie is letters going back and forth between Giza and Erzsi, read in voiceover as they describe what is going on in their lives.
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''Cat's Play'' is a 1974 film from Hungary directed by Karoly Makk.
The story centers on two sisters, Giza and Erzsi. They are now old ladies. Giza at some point in the past emigrated to West Germany, while Erzsi remained behind in Hungary. Giza, the older sister who is now wheelchair-bound due to nerve damage, wants Erzsi to emigrate to be with her. Erzsi, however, refuses. She has not retired, continuing to supplement her pension by working as a cook part-time and also working as a choir teacher. More importantly, Erzsi has a boyfriend, an opera singer named Viktor. As it turns out, Viktor and Erzsi are renewing an old romance, from long ago, when they were all young people in pre-war Hungary.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are many flashbacks to the sisters when they were young decades ago. Many show them cavorting in the lakeside resort of Leta with a young Viktor. Others show Erzsi going off alone to see Viktor in a performance.
The story centers on two sisters, Giza and Erzsi. They are now old ladies. Giza at some point in the past emigrated to West Germany, while Erzsi remained behind in Hungary. Giza, the older sister who is now wheelchair-bound due to nerve damage, wants Erzsi to emigrate to be with her. Erzsi, however, refuses. She has not retired, continuing to supplement her pension by working as a cook part-time and also working as a choir teacher. More importantly, Erzsi has a boyfriend, an opera singer named Viktor. As it turns out, Viktor and Erzsi are renewing an old romance, from long ago, when they were all young people in pre-war Hungary.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are many flashbacks to the sisters when they were young decades ago. Many show them cavorting in the lakeside resort of Leta with a young Viktor. Others show Erzsi going off alone to see Viktor in a performance.
