February 1999 Cover
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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
HUNGarians
Rating: 3 Stars
Sarava Productions. Produced by Kristen
Bjorn. Directed by Steve Cadro.
Videography by Mark Woolfe. Music by
Francois Girard. Starring Zsolt Kopasz,
Zoltan Korda, Attila Magyar, Istvan
Szombat, Andras Garotni, Tomas Konya,
Layos Bognar, Ivan Toth, Adam Szendi,
Arpad Czene, Csaba Nagyfosz, Kristian
Paal, Rezso Farkas, Szabolcs Valaczka,
Gyorgi Turani, and Tibor Furst.
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In a promising directorial debut, Kristen Bjorn protégé Steve Cadro orchestrates a four-act tribute to the Eastern European male body. In the opening segment,
"Escape from Bosnia," four young men flee a war-torn city by way of a flooded underground maze. This environment, full of sculpted grottoes and clean, clear,
Perrier-green water, looks more like an upscale gay spa than the sewers of Sarajevo, but the actors seem godlike as they make their way through it naked, carrying torches.
Their ultimate group encounter, though awkwardly posed on a stairway, glows with sexual heat.
In "East Side Story," a man on a train to Budapest falls asleep and dreams of having sex with two hunks who sit facing him. Then, in "Hungarian Rhapsody," a
cute shirtless farm lad bakes bread while watched by an angel in a tacky tunic. The angel approaches the bread boy, who fucks him. A passing horseman soon joins in
the fun. This scene is as fiercely erotic as it is deliriously silly; the actors grin incandescently, as if sex were the world's most delightful surprise.
The concluding segment, "The Magician," in which three soldiers experience off-the-wall sexual rites at a sorcerer's rural villa, is the most elaborate and
problematic, ending in a static five-way chain formation. For the most part, however, the sex is directed with verve and authority. Some subterranean scenes in the
Bosnian section are too brightly lit, and scattered compositions are fussy and precious, but portions of
HUNGarians are as visually exquisite as video ever gets. The influence
of Kristen Bjorn is unmistakable, but Cadro has his own budding style, with an eye for the surreal. The result is magical, ridiculous, or both, depending on your taste,
but it's hard to dismiss. When a gay adult video opens with Bosnian Muslims at prayer, you know you're in for something exceptional.
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