# Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

> Miklós Jancsó turns wartime Hungarian history into a surreal, self-reflexive collage of comic encounters, musical intrusions, and fractured political imagery.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/70798

## Facts

- Runtime: 84 min
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Director: Miklós Jancsó
- Cast: Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Ildikó Tóth, Miklós Jancsó, Gyula Hernádi, Judit Schell, István Márton, Balázs Galkó
- TMDB rating: 5.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351172/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: surreal, darkly comic, disorienting, arthouse cinema night, hungarian film retrospective

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