Kontroll: The Most Slept-On Hungarian Train-Based Thriller of All Time
Kontrollis one of only two Hungarian-language films directed by Euro-American filmmakerNimród Antal, who would go on to make things likePredators, Vacancy,and a couple episodes ofStranger Things. The film follows Bulcsú, a traffic cop for the underground subway system and his unseemly, mish-mashed group of male coworkers, as they enforce their own brand of justice on fare-beaters and track-jumpers. They refer to their bosses as “Gestapo,” but they themselves don Nazi-esque armbands bearing the Budapest Metro insignia whenever they need to express their power....