The Man from London

The Man from London Hungarian A londoni frfi is a 2007 film by Hungarian director Bla Tarr. It is an adaptation by Tarr and his collaboratorfriend Lszl Krasznahorkai of the 1934 French language novel LHomme de Londres by prolific Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The film was codirected by editor gnes Hranitzky, and features an international ensemble cast including Czech actor Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, and Hungarian actors Jnos Derzsi and Istvn Lnrt. The plot follows Maloin, a nondescript railway worker who recovers a briefcase containing a significant amount of money from the scene of a murder to which he is the only witness. Wracked by guilt and fear of being discovered, Maloin sinks into despondence and frustration, which leads to acrimony in his household. Meanwhile, an English police detective investigates the disappearance of the money and the unscrupulous characters connected to the crime.

The film concerns a middleaged railway pointsman, Maloin Miroslav Krobot, who lives in a decrepit apartment in a port town with his highlystrung wife Camlia Tilda Swinton and his daughter Henriette Erika Bk. One night while in his viewing tower at the ports rail terminus, Maloin witnesses a fight on the dockside. One of the shady combatants is knocked into the water along with the briefcase he carries when the other flees the dark quayside, Maloin makes a clandestine descent from the tower and retrieves the briefcase, which he finds full of sodden English banknotes. Maloin conceals the money and tells noone of what he has seen. The next morning, he visits a tavern where he plays chess with the barkeep Gyula Pauer. On his way home, he stops by the butchers where his daughter works, and finds to his indignation that they have her washing the floor. Later, from the window of his apartment, he notices Brown Jnos Derzsi watching him from below. At dinner, Maloin is increasingly irascible, addressing Henriette brusquely and arguing with Camlia. Meanwhile, Brown searches the water at the docks edge without success before noticing the watchtower overlooking the quayside, and Maloin within.Later at the tavern, a police inspector from London named Morrison Istvn Lnrt discusses with Brown the matter of the stolen money. Morrison claims to be working on behalf of a theater owner named Mitchell, a theatre owner from whose office safe the 55,000 was stolen. Morrison proposes that Brown, being intimately familiar with Mitchells office, is the only man he knows who was capable of making away with the money without raising alarm. Morrison indicates that Mitchell cares only that the money is returned swiftly, and is even prepared to offer a two nights theater takings in exchange. When Morrison mentions having visited Browns wife and asks what he should tell Mitchell, Brown leaves the room under a pretense and slips out a side door. Nearby playing chess with the barkeep, Maloin has o

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