The story follows a young student who is orphaned as it grows to adulthood, in the shadow of the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mari Töröcsik
Forbidden Relations AKA Visszaesök (1983) Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Lili Monori, Miklós Székely B., Mari Töröcsik
Juli’s husband commits suicide, so she is being persuaded to shed her own. Read More »
The Boys of Paul Street AKA A Pál utcai fiúk (1968) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Sándor Pécsi, László Kozák
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. Read More »
Sweet Anna (1958) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Mária Mezei, Károly Kovács
Mail for translation. A kis cseled, Edes Anna mindenesnek szegodik Vizy meltosagosekhoz. Read More »
Merry-Go-Round (1956) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Imre Soós, Ádám Szirtes
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Read More »
Csend és kiáltás / Silence and Cry (1968) Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó’s Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.
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