Movies like Adventurers 2008
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Adventurers (2008)
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Original name: Kalandorok
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick of things, to visit her parents, who live across the border. When he arrives in Transylvania, his father says he is fed up with her jealousy and moves in with him. Géza reluctantly accepts the idea, but eventually the three men set off for Budapest. Along the way, they face many trials and tribulations: hit-and-runs, chases, women, corpses and the green border.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, family drama, trumpet player, border crossing, reconciliation, dark humor, midlife crisis, grandfather, humanism, slice of life, bittersweet, family secret, nostalgia, satire, identity, small town life, social commentary, on the road, migration, family secrets, hungarian
Place:
transylvania, budapest, hungary, eastern europe
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