Vakvagany (2002)

Vakvagany plot

Director Benjamin Meade accidentally managed to get his hands on a box of home movies from a certain Locsei family from Budapest. He soon saw that these were no ordinary family films, but that if you looked closely, there was much more to see than just average family happiness. He approached three prominent observers to analyze the films shot between 1948 and 1964. Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, psychiatrist Roy Menninger and writer James Ellroy looked at the apparently frivolous images, which are included in their entirety in the documentary, and discovered signs of a complex, troubled family in small details and wonderful shots. "Why was the naked baby filmed so unphotogenic from below?", the psychiatrist wonders. "And isn't it strange that mother holds the baby's penis while urinating?" In a staged scene, father powders himself with mother's make-up. And in another scene, just after World War II, jewelry and other property belonging to murdered Hungarians are inventoried. Interviews are also conducted with relatives and local residents, who open up about the Locseis. In this way a great family tragedy unfolds, which is confirmed by the current condition of the now grown children. The son is an alcoholic and mentally broken down, the daughter is hysterical and does not want to be filmed.

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