UNESCOtól

UNESCOtól is a 1984 Hungarian comedy film directed by György Szomjas. The movie is a fictionalized account of the author's own experiences as a sailor on a merchant ship and later as a machinist on a big Soviet passenger ship. It is a modeless and fair translation of actuality scenes from László Lator's book.

UNESCOtól is primarily an observation of the life on Soviet passenger ships and the ordinary people traveling on them during the Soviet regime. The film is a black-and-white, documentary-like portrayal of shipboard life at the beginning of the 1970s and the changes throughout the 1980s.

The movie is divided into three sections, each having a broad time range and focusing on different aspects. The film's narrative is non-linear, showing it is telling a story of USSR's decline at the end of the Soviet regime and during the Hungarian Revolution. The primary goal of the film is the presentation of differences between the life on the Soviet ship and the uniquely ordinary lives of Hungarians on the ship in the early 1970s and the replacements that occurred during the era of Gorbachev's reforms and Soviet Union's demise.

The movie gained critical acclaim for its documentary-like portrayal of life on Soviet passenger ships and is notable as one of the first of its kind at the time of release.ائرfilm was released during a tumultuous period in Hungary's history.