Snack Bar Budapest


Snack Bar Budapest is a 1988 Italian neo-noir comedy film written and directed by Tinto Brass and starring Giancarlo Giannini. It is based on the novel with the same title by Marco Lodoli and Silvia Bre.

Plot

A disbarred lawyer is working as a debt collector for his partner Sapo. Prostitute Milena impregnated by Sapo at an unnamed sea resort with a grotesque atmosphere, he encounters the ambitious young ringleader Molecola who has bought several old recreational sites in the environs to turn the town into an "Italian Las Vegas", but the hotel-bar named "Snack Bar Budapest" run by a man and his family remains an obstacle. Molecola needs a lawyer to legitimise the forceful eviction of Snack Bar Budapest and the lawyer agrees. However, a murder he commits brings him at odds with Molecola.

Cast