The Hour of the Pig DVD 1993 A disznó órája / Directed by Leslie Megahey / Starring: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence, Amina Annabi, Nicol Williamson / AKA The Adcovate

UPC 5999882974460

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 112 minutes

English Summary:

The Hour of the Pig is set in 15th-century France and is based upon the career and case files of Bartholomew Chassenee, an actual lawyer of the time who served as an advocate for animals who were accused of crimes. At the time, animal trials were used to determine if animals were the perpetrators of supernatural mayhem. Animals were subject to the same civil laws and penalties as human beings under French law, 1403–1596.

Richard Courtois (Firth) and his clerk Mathieu (Carter) have left the decadence of Paris in order to practise law in what they believe to be a quiet rural village, Abbeville, in the province of Ponthieu, then part of Burgundy rather than France. Courtois quickly becomes involved in a number of back-logged cases.

For his first case, he defends a farmer who is accused of killing his wife's lover. Courtois gets him acquitted (the farmer mutters, "I should have done him years ago" as he leaves and offers to help Courtois any time). In his next case, Courtois fails to save Jeannine, a woman accused of witchcraft. He asks for rats to be called as witnesses to testify that she did not bribe them to infect her neighbor; when the rats do not appear the following day as summoned, this charge is struck off. However, Courtois is unfamiliar with the difference between the Roman law of France and the Ponthieu customary law, and she is sentenced to be hanged anyway. As she is led away she tells Courtois, "There is darkness all about you, you can bring the light. Look to the boy, maître. Look to the boy." At her execution, Jeannine says she will not curse the town but blesses it, saying a fine knight will arrive and deliver them from their lying and evil.

Hungarian Summary:

Franciaországban, a XV. század végén, egy fiatal ügyvéd - Richard Coutois - belefárad a nagyvárosi élet korrupt világába, ezért Párizsból vidékre költözik. Coutois abban bízik, hogy itt végre megtalálja azt, amire mindig is vágyott: nyugodt életet és egyszerű bírósági ügyeket. Hamarosan kiderül, hogy a látszatra békés település egyáltalán nem olyan, amilyennek látszik. A merev feudalizmus, a korrupció és a babonák megingatják Ricard erkölcsi értékrendjét. Felfedezi, hogy Abelville-ben a törvény nem csak az emberekre, de az állatokra is vonatkozik, akiket ugyanúgy el lehet ítélni. Ricard akaratán kívül belecsöppen a lokális intrikák világába, és szembe kell szállnia a babonás előítéletekkel valamint a fekete mágiával.

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