Those Who Wear Glasses (1969)

Original title

Szemüvegesek

Directed by

Sándor Simó

Genre

drama film

Country

Hungary

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people who wear glasses find themselves in strange situations. The film is a black comedy that uses their shared trait to explore social absurdities.

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What happens

Those Who Wear Glasses (Hungarian: Szemüvegesek) is a 1969 Hungarian black comedy film written and directed by Sándor Simó. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. One of the earliest examples of black comedy in European filmmaking, it is considered a classic of the genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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