Movie Description:
As rain brings a flourish of frogs,the bearded, Orthodox patriarch of a Budapest furniture manifacturing family,predicts, in the aftermath of World WarI an ominous future for Hungary. He and his family live in tasteful, spacious comfort above their classy showroom, where they sell fine qualityreproduction of period pieces. The briefRed terror that followsthe Great War, aforeshadowing of what will befall Hungaryin the wake of World War II,finds the store stripped of itsstock, which is returned once the communist threat subsides. Bythe `30s, the elder son hastaken charge of the business and has become convinced the family needs an infusion of newblood. He marries a beautiful German nursery school teacher.Because Hungary has an alliancewith Germany, and the Thrid Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple can get around the Nazi decreesonly by the teacher first becoming a divorced woman. So for three months she becomes the wife in name only of the family firm`s dutiful upholsterer. With the advent of the World War IIthe shop ermerges as a refuge in a worldgone mad and which would grow even madder with the advent of communist rule
