Márta Mészáros — Playwright (16)

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Riddance (1973)
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other title: 자유로운 호흡 / Freier Atem …
Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced her to live a lie.

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Little Vilma: The Last Diary (2000)
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other title: Kisvilma / Little Vilna: The Last Diary …
The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when several innocent people were persecuted for no fault. A good film which allow people to know how people in Europe were tortured before second world war by dictators and authoritarian regimes.

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The Unburied Man (2004)
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other title: A Temetetlen halott / 未埋葬的人 …
Imre Nagy led Hungary's 1956 revolution and was executed after its defeat. His name remained taboo for some 30 years, his political activity the subject of controversy and heated debate – up until his complete personal rehabilitation and that of his political legacy. THE UNBURIED MAN was among the first gestures to pay tribute to him and grant him a public “appearance”. The film, however, is not set in the tumultuous days of the revolution but instead depicts the last period of Nagy’s life, from his time inside his refuge at the Yugoslav Embassy up to his secret execution, in what proves to be a singularly intimate encounter with a key personality of 20th-century European history.

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Anna (1981)
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玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 玛丽-若斯·纳特 / 扬·诺维茨基 …
other title: 安娜
Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter. In 1957, in Vienna, she had entrusted it to a family, the time to repatriate to Budapest the body of her deceased husband. But she was arrested and, when she was released from prison a year later, the family disappeared with her daughter. Anna's conviction is now turning into certainty. She will go to Paris to find Marie

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Fetus (1994)
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other title: 胎儿 / A magzat …
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts the cash offer from Terez, her tough boss at the store where she works. If she will isolate herself throughout the pregnancy, secretly bear the child and immediately allow Terez to sign for it, Anna will receive $50,000. Most of the story then focuses upon Anna's emotional processes as she evaluates her choice. Included are dream segments and shots an unborn baby in the womb.

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Aurora Borealis: Northern Lights (2017)
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玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 玛丽·德勒契克 / 伊尔迪科·托特 …
other title: 北极光 / Aurora Borealis: Északi fény …
The story revolves around Olga, who lives in Vienna. She realises that there are secrets and lies buried in her family’s past, and that she will not be able to put her own life in order until she works out the truth behind what really happened. After returning to Hungary, her elderly mother did everything in her power to keep the past a secret from her daughter and lied to her for years. But when she falls into a coma, Olga finds a mysterious photograph and starts to search for the truth...

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The Seventh Room (1996)
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玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 玛雅·摩根斯特恩 / Elide Melli …
other title: 第七房间 / A hetedik szoba …
This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order. But when World War II heated up, Heller, who had become an important Nazi official, took his revenge. He had her deported to Auschwitz

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Olyan mint otthon (1978)
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玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 茹饶·钦科齐 / 扬·诺维茨基 …
other title: 就像在家 / Comme chez nous …
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.

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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
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玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 茹饶·钦科齐 / 扬·诺维茨基 …
other title: 留给父母的日记 / Napló apámnak, anyámnak …
During a costume party on New Years Eve, a group of revelers join a celibration drinking and cheering in the New Year. One party goer, having drank too much, sticks her head out the window and hollars bitterly against the regeim in which they live. Within seconds uniformed police knock at the door and insist on searching the papers of all the group present. The partygoes look dumbfounded, looking ridiculous in their costumes and brutish policemen search them. This is the nightmarish world of Hungary on New Years 1957 in the startling "Diary for my Mother and Father." This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shaddow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the communist intellegensia, he 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.

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Nine Months (1976)
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other title: 九个月的爱情 / Kilenc hónap …
Juli moves to the big city in order to take up a job in a factory, and on the very same day the foreman János asks her to marry him. Alas, communication between the two is rough going from the very start – their visions of how life together is supposed to look divide them. János can’t find it in his heart to accept Juli’s yearning for independence or her past. In raw images that portend an almost predetermined conclusion with their social-realist tone, the film shows Juli’s resistance with all of its consequences – she decides to have her baby all on her own. In the end, we witness the actual delivery of Juli’s (in reality of course actress Lili Monori’s) child, the first birth to be shown in a film in Europe. Nine Months was honoured with the Fipresci Prize (Parallel Sections) in Cannes in 1977. Since my first film « Cati », I have been obstinately inquiring about women with well defined personalities, able to make decisions in an independent manner, although at that time « feminism » was not really in vogue. It has now become so. The heroine of my film is one of these women. She is lucid, self-relying, and responsible. She tells the man who loves her that he must accept her as she is, with her past life, her experiences, her already formed personality. - Marta MESZAROS

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Adoption (1975)
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★ 7.8 24 ratings
玛塔·梅萨罗什 actor: 卡塔琳·拜赖克 / Gyöngyvér Vigh …
other title: 领养 / Örökbefogadás …
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.

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Diary for My Children (1984)
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★ 7.9 17 ratings
other title: 留给女儿的日记 / Napló gyermekeimnek …
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.