Tibor Déry

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence. In a café he meets his former friend Lajos, who has just broken up with his lover, Márta, because of the wife of professor Büchler. The transiently formed, rootless Rácz gets entangled into the sophisticated, complicated love affairs of bored or tired ladies.

Satire from the makers of hungarian classic Love (1971): director Károly Makk and writer Tibor Déry. Made for TV.

This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.

Un disidente húngaro es arrestado por la policia secreta y encarcelado. Su esposa vive con la suegra, una dulce y magnética mujer, que cree que su hijo ha emigrado a los Estados Unidos. Incapaz de hacer nada por su marido, la joven mantiene consolada y animada a su suegra inventando una serie de cartas que supuestamente ha escrito su marido, en las cuales les cuenta cosas bonitas que les ayudan a recordar tiempos mejores. (FILMAFFINITY)

Venice Film Festival 1954