Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.

Aside from its fine acting and its tense, noir-ish plot, Károly Makk’s Another Way (Egymásra nézve, 1982) is notable for its daring subject matter. The film, based on a novella by Erzébet Galgóczi, depicts a doomed lesbian love affair that takes place in late 1950s Hungary, shortly after the country’s failed 1956 uprising against Communism. The topic was a double taboo: Another Way was the first Hungarian feature film with homosexuality as a central theme and, slightly more common but certainly no less shocking at the time, the film looked back at 1956’s upheavals and the consequences of them.

The authorities balked when they first saw Makk’s film. Although overt censorship was rare in Communist Hungary (in contrast to Czechoslovakia or Poland), Makk was put under pressure to make changes to the film. However, the Cannes selection committee started to take an interest in Another Way, presumably based on Makk’s previous international successes, including two awards and a special mention for another of his masterpieces, Love (Szerelem, 1971). Despite official protestations and offers from the state-owned distributors of other new Hungarian films to show instead, Makk’s new feature was screened uncut at the 1982 Cannes festival and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize for Best Peformance by an Actress for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak.

Although the political sensitivities have long since faded, the film’s entwining of political and sexual identity still remains bold. It is also worth noting, that despite the considerably greater degree of political expression Makk has had since the fall of Communism, films such as his Hungarian Requiem (Magyar Rekviem, 1992), which also concerns the fateful year of 1956 as viewed from a few years after, have been widely regarded as far weaker works aesthetically and politically than Love or Another Way.

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Set during Martial Law in Poland and centers on the young widow of an attorney who defended activists during political trials. The woman finds herself unable to deal with her husband’s death. The spirit of the departed intervenes in her life and the widow constantly feels this presence. Her longing for her deceased husband ultimately leads her to commit suicide. The storyline of the heroine’s personal experiences is intertwined with that centering on the political trial of a young worker. In the film, Kieślowski offers a series of reflections on the political stance of society and the professional ethics of lawyers.

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Subtitles:English

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A beautiful, melancholy film set in the nineteenth century but with obvious contemporary reverberations, Flowers of Reverie recently won the important Silver Bear (Special Jury Prize) at the Berlin Film Festival ’85. The story tells of a family divided by political antagonisms and allegiances in the years following the defeat of the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence against imperial Austria. Ferenc Majlath, an ex-soldier who participated in the revolution, now allies himself with his exiled commanding officer to the dismay of his uncle, the family patriarch who is a supporter of the Emperor Franz Joseph. In a country littered with secret police eager to ferret out supporters of the failed rebellion, Ferenc is soon jailed; when he refuses to sign a confession and exhibits signs of extreme depression, he is committed to an insane asylum. There he remains while his wife and family attempt to determine the all-important question of whether he is truly insane or using his commitment to political ends. Gyorgy Cserhalmi’s intense and accomplished performance as Ferenc draws the audience into the ambiguity as well. When a letter to the Emperor signed by Ferenc finds its way into a Swiss newspaper, the politics of his insanity are dramatically and tragically underscored.

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Subtitles:English, Hungarian

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