Anna tries to give her children everything,
although her husband’s lack of employment and their indebtedness are becoming increasingly oppressive.
When it transpires that she is pregnant again, she is faced with a tremendously difficult decision.
On the other hand, Teréz has everything in life except what she most yearns for: a baby.
The wealthy woman offers to resolve all Anna’s financial troubles,
if she will go through with the birth and then hand over the child.
Márta Mészáros’s emotional drama positions the spotlight on surrogacy and the moral dilemmas that surround the subject.

A Magzat 1994 1080p WebDL FMIO.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/E0A278CDE6D3D94/A_Magzat_1994_1080p_WebDL_FMIO.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

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From the DVD booklet:
Our town… is big! Maybe that’s why it has room for so many stories and events, for so many problems. Probably you’d like us to tell you a story, maybe even a love story. No. Today we’ll talk about a problem. In fact, it’s still a problem of the heart…but a problem to do with children. This is the start of a film made by Márta Mészáros during the few years she spent in Romania at the Sahia studio. The warmth of the beginning is unexpected for a film produced during one of Romania’s darkest decades. The film’s protagonists are orphans taken into care by the state and accommodated at a children’s home in Bucharest. Mészáros’s interest in the fate of children orphaned in the aftermath of the Second World War was autobiographic: as she had lost her parents as a child herself, she had first-hand experience of growing up without them. At the same time, during the 1950s, the trope of the orphan adopted by the parent-state was deeply political, and therefore relevant to the state’s agenda – and this was one of the reasons why the project was readily accepted for production. Although the film ticks a few boxes relating to the politics of the time – such as the socialist regime’s investment in human capital and the opposition between ‘old’ and ‘new’ – it is much more than a purely political exercise. Mészáros`s orphans are first and foremost human beings and are political subjects only secondarily. p They have their own names and biographies, and also their own traumas, among which poverty and domestic violence are prevalent. Nonetheless, the film is not only about the horrors of the past, but also about the light of the present, and the hope that that present brings with it. As it was produced at a time when regulations at Sahia were not so strict when it came to the length of films, Let All the Children Smile is longer than the studio’s usual ten-minute productions. Therefore, the film has enough time to sketch the process of recovery and rediscovery undergone by the children in state care. An essential contribution to the coherence of the film is provided by two of Mészáros’ collaborators: Doru Segall, newly returned to Romania after having studied at VGIK in Moscow, and writer Eva Sîrbu, here in her second collaboration with Sahia, after Report from the Red Flag (Alexandru Sîrbu, 1956, see VINTAGE SAHIA I), and whose voice-over commentary is the perfect fit for Mészáros’s gracious, humane approach.

Sa zambeasca toti copiii (1957) Marta Meszaros.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/E6CFF12B22145E2/Sa_zimbeasca_toti_copii_(1957)_Marta_Meszaros.mkv

Language(s):Romanian
Subtitles:English

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Like ADOPTION, this 1964 short film by Márta Mészáros explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.

A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can’t escape an unbearable ennui. Like Mészáros’s ADOPTION, this early short film explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.

Bobita.aka.Blow.Ball.1965.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/18497EB3D216DA1/Bobita.aka.Blow.Ball.1965.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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Returning from America, Andras tries to renew his relationship with Anna, an old flame, but she refuses. His decision to buy a dog for companionship leads to a meeting with a little girl and a new relationship begins.

crls-olyan.mint.otthon.1080p.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/5BBDD44EC565B09/crls-olyan.mint.otthon.1080p.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

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Barbara is a young mother of two in Hungary whose everyday life is abruptly collapses when a friend in Poland dies. Barbara travels to the funeral and meets an actress and experiences an intense love story.

913MB | 1h 40m | 592×432 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/6C4E3584B5136C9/Utkozben_(Marta_Meszaros,1979).avi

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:Polish hardcoded

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After her husband dies, a woman questions her love for her husband and whether or not to accept money from the insurance policy. Tensions mount when her estranged son returns to the familial home with his girlfriend.

Holdudvar.1969.1080p.Web-DL.KG.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/6716E7260D652F7/Holdudvar.1969.1080p.Web-DL.KG.mkv

Language:Hungarian
Subtitles:English,German,French,Italian,Portuguese,Spanish

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Quote:
1936. Sylvia a rich but sterile woman, marries Akos but needs an heir to inherit her father’s money. She bribes Irene a Jewish girl to have a child by her husband.

3.32GB | 1h 40m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3A3798EDCE5E6A3/Orokseg_1080p.mkv

Language:Hungarian,
Subtitles:Hungarian,English

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