Tehetetlenül

During 11 years, the entire population of a Hungarian industrial town is growing old and crippled physically and mentally in front of the viewer’s eyes. Thirty months before the political changes, the chimneys of the factoy employing 14,000 people are still smoking. During the decades of communism, Ozd became the Stakhanovite vanguard, the major stronghold of socialist industry in the country. After the fall of socialism, the workers are shocked to see that they are not needed anymore. The governments in charge of the change of regime know that it is useless to maintain the huge factory complex, but they don’t dare to say so because they are aware of the unfathomable consequences. And the workers are unable to believe that a town of 50,000 inhabitants can be abolished. By the end of our film, every second man has become jobless in Ozd, the factory has been stolen piece by piece, and one of the protagonists has died of all this hopelessness. In the meantime, Hungary was successfully carrying out the political and economic change of regime.