Hukkle
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Hukkle is a 2002 Hungarian film directed by György Pálfi, which is translated as 'to hiccup'. It's about the daily life of people in a random village which seems beautiful and harmless. But there is something mysterious going on.
Plot
The story takes place in an ordinary village in Hungary. It starts with an old man who has a hiccup and takes place in front of his house with a can of milk. He observes the daily habits of the villagers. Then there are a lot of sequences about all kinds of events: a young man drives on his horse with car filled with milkcans. Normally he would clean them, but now he's distracted by a girl sitting in sun; a threshing-machine is harvesting; a cat gets poisoned and eventually dies; a mole gets killed by an old lady who to ploughs the ground. She gives it to her dog; a farmer takes his pig to a sow for copulation, and both farmers watch satisfied when the pigs copulate; the men of the village play a game of bowl to kill time; the old man is still having a hiccup.
It seems like an idyllic village, but there are some mysterious things happening. During all the events there are some sequences about women trading bottles with unknown liquids. From time to time someone dies and the whole village walks up with the chest and the widow to give a little comfort. But it all seems harmless and normal life continues after the burials. When a fisher-man disappears, a local police man is determined to find out what happened. But in the end he hasn't figured out what has happened with the man.
With (almost) no dialogue in the movie, it seems that the events around the villagers, animals and plants don't have any meaning. But in the end of the movie, there is a wedding where some girls sing an old folksong which reveals the whole murder-mystery.
