MOVIES - Jan. 8, 1988
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There’s been a Man With No Name, even a Horse With No Name. But a Film With No Name? In Hungary, apparently so. Based on fact, a new film now showing in Budapest tells how groups of local Hungarian leaders tried to sabotage grass-root candidates running for parliament after Hungary made multiple-candidate campaigns compulsory in 1985. Director Andras Kovacs said he is leaving the title off “first as a gimmick, but second because I wanted to see what the public would suggest.” A $400 prize--more than three times the average monthly wage in Hungary--offered to the lucky titlist attracted more than 1,200 entries in the first four weeks of showing.
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