Kolodko: "Nincs kompót" miniszobor
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"A Russian soldier looks inside a (mini) pantry, where a jar of jam sits empty. Behind him, there’s a chair.
This mini sculpture is positioned in a tiny slot between the walls of the river bank in Buda, close to the Várkert Bázár.
Here, the miniaturized pantry has a functioning door. On the door, the writing “spájz” (pantry). The quote “The Russians are already in the pantry” is from the 1965 Hungarian satirical movie “The Corporal and the Others”, and it became a saying in the Hungarian language.
This is Kolodko's 2nd reaction to the 2022 war on Ukraine, his home land. The other is listed below in Pest. "
Kinga Nagygyorgy
""Nincs kompot" could be translated to "There is no compote" The scene is from a Hungarian comedy about WW2 - "A tizedes, meg a többiek / The corporal and the others" where the Russians are already in the pantry, while the Germans are in the dining room.
TIP: Wait for one of the old-school trams to pass by and snap a shot.
This is the movie in Hungarian, with English subtitles: https://vimeo.com/groups/641529/videos/244172172 "
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Eszter Horvath Somogyi
"ℹ️ INSIDER INFO: This phrase "went viral" from a Hungarian black and white movie released in 1965 called "The Corporal and the Others". Unlike the rest of the mini sculptures this time the door can be actually closed and opened, making it moving, like a real door."
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