Cat City
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| Directed by | Béla Ternovszky |
| Produced by | Kunz Román |
| Written by | József Nepp |
| Starring |
László Sinkó Miklós Benedek Péter Haumann |
| Music by |
Tamás Deák Jimmy Giuffre |
| Cinematography |
Mária Neményi Csaba Nagy György Varga |
| Edited by | Magda Hap |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Cat City 2: The Cat of Satan (Macskafogó 2 - A sátán macskája) |
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| Directed by | Béla Ternovszky |
| Produced by | Eszter Salamon Szilárd Varga |
| Written by | József Nepp |
| Music by | Miklós Malek |
| Edited by | Róbert Pataki |
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Release date
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December 20, 2007 |
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Running time
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90 min. |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Budget | $3m (USD) |
Cat City (Hungarian: Macskafogó (Cat Catcher)) is a 1986 Hungarian animated film, directed by Béla Ternovszky and written by József Nepp. The title Cat City was used in the United States distribution. The original Hungarian version contains a number of puns which can be hardly rendered in any other edition. The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film opens with a Star Wars style text scroll, which tells the main situation: In year 80 AM Anno Mickey Mouse, the mice of Planet X are threatened by humiliation and total apocalypse. The well-organized, fully equipped gangs of evil cats are aiming to wipe out the mouse civilization totally, not caring for the old conventions between mice and cats. But in the last moment, when the mouse leaders are beginning to consider leaving the planet, a new hope rises...
The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the James Bond series. The main plot is about a special spy who is sent to the city of "Pokyo" to get the secret plan of a machine which could save the mouse civilization. Of course, the cats don't want this to happen, and send some rat gangsters to stop him, who don't always prove as efficient as their presentation showed.
In United States and Canada the movie was distributed on VHS by Sefel Pictures in 1987 under the name Cat City. The names of almost all characters were changed to avoid any associations with countries of Socialist bloc. The songs were recorded also in different arrangement, and the song of "Four Gangsters" (which was written to Jimmy Giuffre's Four Brothers melody) was replaced completely.
In the Soviet Union this cartoon enjoyed a big success in the box office in 1988 and got a truly cult status among kids after being shown multiple times on TV, dubbed in Russian by Soyuzmultfilm studio. The Russian title is "Ловушка для кошек (Lovushka dlia koshek)" (literally: Cat Trap). In spite of the Russian version being completely dubbed, the songs were left in their original Hungarian version with brief voiceover translations of the first few lines.
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