Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Moderate
- surreal
- darkly comic
- disorienting
- arthouse cinema night
- hungarian film retrospective
What sets it apart
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Miklós Jancsó and Gyula Hernádi appear as themselves alongside fictionalized figures Kapa and Pepe.
The film is built from bizarre, patchwork-like scenes associated with historical and comic situations.
Concentration camps, prisoners of war, and wartime Hungary are filtered through comedy and surreal episodic encounters.
The supplied keywords identify music-video elements within the film's collage of scenes.
Films like Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep, and why
The Turin Horse
absurdist comedy, political satire, and deliberately fragmented storytelling
Satantango
Hungarian arthouse cinema, bleak historical atmosphere, and formally unconventional narrative
Holy Motors
surreal comedy, anti-narrative structure, and playful self-reflexive filmmaking
Movie Details
- Director
- Miklós Jancsó
- Release Date
- 2003-02-06
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 (10)
Cast
- Zoltán Mucsi
- Péter Scherer
- Ildikó Tóth
- Miklós Jancsó
- Gyula Hernádi
- Judit Schell
- István Márton
- Balázs Galkó
- Béla Fesztbaum
- Emese Vasvári
Common questions
- What is Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep about?
- Miklós Jancsó turns wartime Hungarian history into a surreal, self-reflexive collage of comic encounters, musical intrusions, and fractured political imagery.
- What is Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep as moderate.
- Which films are like Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep?
- Films with a similar feel include The Turin Horse, Satantango, and Holy Motors.
- How long is Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep?
- Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep runs 84 minutes.
