History Film / Kontroll

* SinisterSubway

Kontroll is a 2003 Hungarian film directed by Nimrod Antal, starring Sandor Csanyi and Eszter Balla. The title refers to the Hungarian word for the act of metro employees checking for tickets. The film focuses on the daily struggles of a group of metro ticket inspectors in a subway system based on (and shot in) the Budapest Metro. They spend their day exploring abandoned tracks, fighting with irate customers, chasing down an elusive graffiti artist, and competing with a rival team of Kontroll agents. He and his fellow inspectors struggle with their jobs because every one of their customers resents them for harassing them in their daily commute.
Meanwhile, a serial killer has been stalking the metro pushing customers into the tracks. There's also a woman in a bear suit. You heard us.

Kontroll is a 2003 Hungarian film directed by Nimrod Antal, starring Sandor Csanyi and Eszter Balla. The title refers to the Hungarian word for the act of metro employees checking for tickets. The film focuses on the daily struggles of a group of metro ticket inspectors in a subway system based on (and shot in) the Budapest Metro. They spend their day exploring abandoned tracks, fighting with irate customers, chasing down an elusive graffiti artist, and competing with a rival team of Kontroll agents. He and his fellow inspectors struggle with their jobs because every one of their customers resents them for harassing them in their daily commute.

* DeadlyGame: Bulcsu is challenge to a game of 'rail running' that involves outrunning an express train.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Most of the soundtrack.

* OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: The movie starts with a stiff address by a member of the Metro management complimenting the director's skill but warning people not to take it as an accurate depiction of the system.

* BringMyBrownPants: Bulscu's challenger wets himself after [[spoiler:nearly dying from the 'rail running' game]]

* DeadlyGame: Bulscu is challenge to a game of 'rail running' that involves outrunning an express train.
* DistinguishingMark: Bulscu's boss has a large, purple/red colored mark around his right eye.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Bulscu and his team are just inspecting people's tickets because it's their job. But riders will often assault them verbally, and sometimes even physically, and the treat inspectors as some sort of enemy.

* MobstacleCourse: People are one of the many obstacles in the way of Bulscu's gang catching the graffiti artist.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: More of a Delayed Moment of Awesome. Bulscu's gang are getting warmed up and prepared for a ticket inspection session for the oncoming train. But the train driver accidentally drives too far and the music stops. The train goes in reverse back to the platform and the music starts again.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Bulscu's gang.

* AutopsySnackTime: Ambulance workers talk about a recipe while picking up the remains of a man who has been hit by the subway.

* SinisterSubway
* TeenyWeenie: Muki tries to get the attention of an attractive women on the train that they are inspecting. She get's him to leave her alone by commenting on his supposedly small member, so it's not necessarily true.

* TeenyWeenie: Muki tries to g, but it's not necessarily true. et the attention of an attractive women on the train that they are inspecting. She get's him to leave her alone by commenting on his supposedly small member, so it's not necessarily true.

* SinisterSubway

* GenreBusting

* DistinguishingMark: The boss has a large, purple/red colored mark around his right eye.

* GenreBusting:

* SlashedThroat

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Meanwhile, a serial killer has been stalking the metro pushing customers into the tracks. There's also a woman in a bear suit. You heard us.