Directed by Péter Bácso, Hungary, 1968) A Hungarian cult classic about the life of an ordinary dike keeper, Josef Pelikan, who finds himself arbitrarily promoted to higher and higher positions in a Communist Party version of the “Peter principle.” Broad satire parodying many ceremonies and conventions of the Rákosi Era (1945-56); the film was banned in Hungary until it was screened abroad at Cannes in 1981.