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This is a Hungarian Film. Hungary is a little country beside the Danube. The film ends with a song about the beautiful blue Danube, an irony which may help one arrive at some conclusions regarding the politics of love and power. Title: Blue Danube Waltz |
BLUE DANUBE WALTZ The story takes place in the present, in Budapest, Hungary's capital. The Hungarian Prime Minister has invited a financier (a former Hungarian actor) representing an American financial group to visit his country. The Americans hope to start a business and would like to buy some old buildings. The Prime Minister's cousin, also a politician, is against the project. According to him, it is not the right time to invest in Hungary because of the chaos caused by the policies of the Prime Minister. According to him, the Prime Minister represents a real danger to Hungary's future. For this reasons, he thinks of killing the Prime Minister's wife to do it. The wife, it turns out, has had a deep and longstanding hatred of her husband. During an official visit by the financier to an abandoned factory, the Prime Minister's wife, under the influence of drugs, shoots her husband with a pistol. There is an immediate investigation led by the chief of police, the Prime Minister's wife, and a priest who happens also to be related to the Prime Minister. The cousin is himself shot dead and in the end one is not sure whether all is just his dream or an actuality. |