Pelikan Blue
Original title:Kék Pelikan
Hungary
2023
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Introduction
In the 1990s Hungary, traveling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders suddenly open up. Everyone wants to travel to Western Europe – young people in particular – but the price of a train ticket is prohibitive. What good is freedom if you can’t afford it?
Ákos, Petya and Laci discover a simple method of using household detergents to dissolve Pelikan‘s Blue carbon ink, allowing them to forge train tickets to any destination. Over time, they become professional and infamous forgery artists. For a long time, everything goes along smoothly, but when the police starts an investigation, the friends discover that freedom comes at a price.
Ákos, the brain, vanishes; Petya, the sales genius, flees to New York; and the newcomer Zoli takes the fall. Eventually, everything gets straightened out, and a decade-long racket finally comes to an end with the help of a young cop.
Director
László Csáki
László Csáki is an independent visual artist, animator and animation film director, well known for his unique chalkboard-drawing style. Several of his animated, documentary and short films have won multiple awards around the world. He has a vast experience as an animation tutor at Budapest Metropolitan University (METU), Animation department. He lives and works in Budapest.