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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7amin-0916

Nice story

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

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.

ambruskammermann

Biography

James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Sharon Angela, Max Casella, Dan Grimaldi, Joe Perrino, Donna Pescow, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico, and Michael Drayer in Les Soprano (1999)

Crime

Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight (2016)

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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.