Guests of Züzü

"Crowded co-tickets in Buda, repressed desires and fears, complicated human relationships, intricate loves unfold before us in Tibor Szobotka's classic novel, set in 1956. Only one or two beautiful paintings, the old piano and the books They are forced to share their spacious apartment with strangers who are constantly invading their lives with their inherited noise and curiosity, but do they both really know each other? For a long time, it did not occur to his father to report the "sinful" relationship to his father, who also confessed late: he asked the hands of the pretty singer, Lilike, in the romantic twilight of a confectionery in Buda. she is pretending to finally marry herself because she is afraid of loneliness. Ákos, Kornélia, Pándy and Lilike are also members of the fine, gentlemanly company that meets weekly in the salon of Züzü, the former celebrated actress. The superficial chatter, the dreaded appearance of past successes and prosperity can only obscure the truth for a while. The spark of hesitant loves and their immature political ambitions is then ignited by the fall of 1956. The winds of change sweep like a tornado through Züzü’s stale air salon, and the fate of the people who turn there takes a dramatic turn. It seems that the appearance of the end is over, the possibility of freedom and individual happiness attracts and seduces the actors as an almost incomprehensible promise. Some of them become real heroes, but others fail. Tibor Szobotka's groundbreaking, shocking novel teaches that there is nothing more valuable than real, deep human relationships in the world of appearances, even if we feel at home, we can never be really happy. "