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Volley for a Black Buffalo

May 16, 1985 · 1h 47m
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Drama

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During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.

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CAST

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Mr. Fodó, teacher
Jean Rochefort
Lajos Ácsi, the count
Fanny Cottençon
Fodóné
Székely B. Miklós
Peter the Black, the buffalo
Ferenc Kállai
Reverend Mr Berecz
István Bujtor
Dukay
Berta Domínguez D.
Teacher from Novák
Lili Monori
Wife of Peter Black
Directed by László Szabó

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Status
Released
Original language
HU
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—
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Procinex
Country
FR, HU

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