# The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

> Two foul-mouthed Hungarian gravediggers drift through a comic, ghostly Budapest landscape where death feels more dependable than meaning.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/70369

## Facts

- Runtime: 103 min
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Director: Miklós Jancsó
- Cast: Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, József Szarvas, Miklós Jancsó, Gyula Hernádi, Emese Vasvári, Zsolt Kovács, György Fehér
- TMDB rating: 6.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185534/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: labyrinthine
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: absurdist, witty, irreverent, arthouse film night, hungarian cinema retrospective

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