Whisky Bandit

Original title: A Viszkis

2017
2h 6m

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A rootless young man in Ceausescu's Romania crosses the Hungarian border looking for a better future. With his back against the wall in the post-socialist turmoil, he becomes the most succes... Read allA rootless young man in Ceausescu's Romania crosses the Hungarian border looking for a better future. With his back against the wall in the post-socialist turmoil, he becomes the most successful bank robber in Hungarian history.A rootless young man in Ceausescu's Romania crosses the Hungarian border looking for a better future. With his back against the wall in the post-socialist turmoil, he becomes the most successful bank robber in Hungarian history.

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7.3/10

9.8K

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Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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Nice hungarian movie

Nice hungarian movie with. More attention to details...: the Opel Astra Police car 441BIT witch is crashed during the pursuit, reapear at the end of the movie when Whisky Man is arrested :))

ambruskammermann

The Whisky Robber

Is a very-very good movie! I loved it! I'm Hungarian! / Ez egy nagyon-nagyon jó film! Szerettem! Magyar vagyok!

9drummerlaci

A great action crime movie!

I think this is a very well made movie. It's not just very well directed but it successfully creates the authentic Hungarian/eastern european '90s atmosphere. It's amazing how authentic this picture feels. The casting is also amazing. Bence Szalay in the lead role just feels so natural but all the others are doing great. The director Antal Nimród is simply the best Hungarian director these days.

As a side aspect of the movie (in the first quarter) it portrays the vicissitudes of being Hungarian in Transilvania especially during the Ceausescu era.

7amin-0916

Nice story

I like based-on-true story movies. It was a nice story but poorly filmed.

7laszlo-05700

Average crime story told with outstanding direction

The Whiskey Robber tells the story of a cultic bank robber in the '90s of Eastern Europe. It sounds a bit boring? Well, sometimes so is the movie - but luckily you can always find joy in the details. One can only praise the work of Nimród Antal and his crew, they did an exceptional job with turning around a plot that would otherwise settle down outside the action scenes. Superb sounds and music, great cinematography, costumes and locations providing more insight to the story than the conversations. Basically this movie could be about anything - a milkman or an insurance broker - it would still be interesting.

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Trivia
Attila Ambrus: The original "Whiskey Robber" Attila Ambrus as the taxi driver.

Goofs
When Attila first meets Kata, she boards the metro at Élmunkás tér (today Lehel tér) towards Árpád híd, but she gets off at Nagyvárad tér, which is to the opposite direction. It's very far from Élmunkás tér and it's impossible that Attila run all the way and got there before the train. He also couldn't know where she is going to get off.