Teréz (Mari Törőcsik) has hit 40 and after her divorce she feels life to be empty and void of purpose. Although those around her do everything they can to help through these difficult times, she slips further into lethargy. This film by Gyula Maár is outstanding for accurately registering the tiniest of spiritual flickers, building on the acting sensibilities of Törőcsik and the incandescent intensity of Lajos Koltai’s camerawork.

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Subtitles:English

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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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Fascist Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman’s little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that he is only looking for employment and hires him. The odd couple begin to like each other. But some time later the authorities decide that the Jews must leave the city. What should he do with the old lady?

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Language(s):Slovak, some German, Yiddish and Latin
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Bittersweet comedy about opression of poor Slovakian people by Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.

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A funny outlaw tale inspired by traditional folk humour. Pacho is no ordinary outlaw. He detests injustice and feudal oppression and he copes with each troublesome situation with the help of his cleverness and wit.

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I think this movie was originally meant as a parody of Slovak national legend of Jánosík, the king of thieves, some kind of Central European Robin Hood, who lived in 1688-1713 (executed to death). The legend makes Jánosík a Superman. Pacho has a pure luck and a little more knowledge of the world and combat than his fellow thieves (for he served in an Austrian imperial army) – thus he easily becomes a leader. Jozef Króner who plays Pacho is one of the best ever Slovak actors, best known for his starring in Oscar winning “Obchod na korze”. Thieves are not like the legendary “100% positive” heroes – they have their needs and a lot of negative characteristics and are, modestly said, a little bit dumb. The aristocracy, endangered by Pacho’s successes, gets afraid and calls in an army. But the female part of the aristocracy finds the thieves extraordinaly SEXY… The empress Mary Therese rules such a big Empire, that she and her servants aren’t even able to find “Hybe” region on the map that covers the whole floor of her audition hall… Pacho’s favorite drink, frndzalica, a cracked liqueur with nitroglycerine-like effects seems to be his greatest power for fighting the disoriented army – and also crucial to his wins. Just like original Jánosík, he finds himself betrayed by the ex-chief and when frndzalica used up, he is sentenced to being buried up to his head – Jánosík was betrayed and hanged by a rib… In the last scene a small boy, who could be Pacho’s son, tells Pacho’s head on the ground he is Pacho the thief-chief… again, the criminal becomes a legend.

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