Péter Gárdos offers a warm, loveable tragicomedy about a household's reaction to a traumatic world. In this child's-eye-view of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, there is gunfire in the streets, school is closed, and life for the children is a holiday. Rarely leaving their apartment, the adults are terrified, except Grandma, who returns from shopping with bullet-ridden bread. The homely father thinks he's another Fred Astaire and secretly wishes to pursue a career in America; the mother worries about her lover; Grandma is militant; ten-year-old Tomi is obsessed with sex; and little Anamari shouts politically dangerous slogans out the window. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1987 Montréal World Film Festival, WHOOPING COUGH is a "revelation"