Passport

The slow decay of a marriage sets the stage for this drama which is leavened with understated humor In 1988 Jozsi Gergely Kocsis is a Hungarian laborer who decides to marry Elizaveta Eniko Borcsok a woman of Hungarian descent living in the Ukraine 1996 finds Joszi and Elizaveta the parents of a young girl but otherwise their marriage is a shambles Jozsi has become an alcoholic and Elizaveta has decided she needs to strike out on her own for the sake of her child Shot on digital video as a project for Hungarian television Paszport was directed by Peter Gothar who previously made the international success Megall Az Ido