The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980) on Netflix
Bendegúz, a teenage boy who fails at everything, drops out of school to herd the Stationmaster's cows by the railway. The Stationmaster's mother-in-law, the Ugly Witch, fights with him.
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Plot summary
In a small Hungarian town, the first thought Bendegúz brings to people's minds is that he should have been hanged at birth. The teenage boy is mischievous and outspoken, and he has never succeeded at anything. He leaves school and becomes a cowboy, taking a job with the Stationmaster that requires him to graze the cattle along the railway line. He is kindhearted and means well, and his good cheer never leaves him, yet he always spoils everything he touches, and his wit does not spare him from humiliating situations. He regularly fights with the Stationmaster's mother-in-law, the Ugly Witch.
Cast
- János Záchas Suszter
- László Cuczoras Paraszt
- Károly Gyulaias Marhakereskedõ
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Stationmaster Meets His Match (1980)
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- The director went to an institute to cast Bendegúz and set one task: whoever dared to kick him in the bottom would win the part. Only Olvasztó Imre dared to do it.
SPOILER
The last scene had to be filmed twice because Bendegúz did not dare pelt the adults with dumplings, so the dumplings were brought to the next day's shoot frozen. The boy hit Koltai square in the eye, as seen in the film, and the rest of the throwing had to be cut from earlier takes.- Bencze Ferenc was originally to play the bakter, but he turned the part down because of illness, so Koltai Róbert took it at the last moment.
- For the straw-stack romp between Csámpás Rozi and the Bakter, Koltai was not there: a stand-in wearing the bakter's boots rolled about with Pécsi Ildikó instead. Pécsi Ildikó said around 2017 that she was alone in the stack, with no mention of a stand-in.
SPOILER
At the end of the film the bakterház was collapsed by tying ropes to the house and then pulling it apart with tractors.- When Bendegúz is slapped by his mother while eating and his chin bangs into the plate, that was not in the script at all, but the director liked it so much that he left it in the finished film.
