An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
는 마르타 메자로스 감독 자신의 어린 시절을 담은 첫번째 ‘일기’ 영화이다. 소련에서 헝가리 이민 가족으로 살고 있던 율리는 그곳에서 부모님을 잃고, 조부모와 함께 헝가리로 돌아온다. 그들은 공산당의 고급관료인 마그다의 집으로 들어가서 살게 된다. 마그다는 율리를 양딸로 삼으려고 하지만 율리는 세상과 고립된 상황과 그 집안의 냉랭하고 굴욕적인 분위기 때문에 고통스러워 한다. 그녀는 어린 시절 해외에 있던 기억을 떠올린다. 영화관은 그녀의 피난처가 되고 자유로운 생각을 가진 엔지니어 야노스가 율리의 안식처가 되어 준다. 소련과 헝가리라는 서로 다른 두 세계의 영향을 받고 자라난 율리는 그녀의 할아버지가 세상을 떠난 후 마그다의 품을 떠나기로 결심한다. - 제9회 서울여성영화제
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back to his former great love. Eventually, as a surrogate father, he takes in a wild young girl (Zsuzsa Czinkóczi) and a particularly strong bond is formed between these two rootless people. Márta Mészáros’s remarkable movie starring Jan Nowicki and Anna Karina is about displacement, loneliness and attachment.
