Dollybirds

The film begins on 28 August 1962 and turns around the Ki mit tud talent contest run by the youth organisation. A group of young people prepare for it, love affairs and calculations get in the way, and the songs of the period carry the whole thing. Péter Tímár directed. It opened on 20 February 1997, shared the best film prize at the Hungarian film festival, and became a cult film among people who had not been born in the sixties, with lines from it passing into everyday speech. Tímár said in an interview that he made it for his own generation, so that he could forgive himself. The summary in the record does not describe the film at all; it reads like a footnote about who really won the contest.