A master of playfulness, visual tricks, and subtle associations. In Moziklip (1987), for instance—where around twenty songs are featured—the music videos include clips not only from his earlier, hugely successful film Egészséges erotika (Healthy Erotica), but also from films by his contemporaries like Péter Bacsó and János Herskó. Most of his films portray the waning Kádár era and the crumbling dictatorship—its absurdities and its peculiar sense of humor. This is especially true of one of the biggest hits of the 1990s, Csinibaba. Exaggerated characters, familiar tunes, caricatured dialogue, and a liberating bittersweet nostalgia define not only Csinibaba, but also Zimmer Feri, 6:3, and the oft-quoted jokes of Csapd le csacsi! (Whack the Donkey!). “I love being alive”, they sing at the end of Csinibaba—and in several of Tímár’s films, the zeitgeist of an era is captured with rare clarity: the atmosphere of a country teetering on the brink of regime change and an uncertain future, something only few great filmmakers have managed to convey so poignantly.