Haz a Szikiak Alatt (The House Under the Rocks) is considered by many to be Hungarian director Karoly Makk’s masterpiece. Janos Gorbe plays a soldier, sick of heart and mind, who returns to his home after a long and debilitating war. He finds that his wife is dead, and his son is now under the care of his sister-in-law, played by Irene Psota. An embittered hunchback, Psota tends to Gorbe’s wounds and keeps him isolated from the rest of the village, hoping in this way that he will eventually fall in love with her. He doesn’t, and tragedy is the result. One of the hits of the 1958 Venice Film Festival, Haz a Skikiak Alatt was equally well received at the San Francisco Film Festival (between its European and American showings, the film’s running time had been judiciously trimmed by several minutes).

	
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The post Károly Makk & György Hintsch – Ház a sziklák alatt AKA The House Under the Rocks (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

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The story of two elderly sisters who exchange letters, and through brief flashbacks we see glimpses of their younger years.

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The post Károly Makk – Macskajáték Aka Cat’s Play (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed her first husband some time ago.

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The post Károly Makk – Die Jäger AKA Deadly Game (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In 1956, there was an uprising of Hungarians against their Russian overlords, which the Russians briefly allowed to flower and then ruthlessly suppressed. One suspects that the country’s rulers knew about the uprising in advance and permitted it to continue so as to be able to identify who was most actively involved. In this film, it is 1958, and five very different men are waiting in their prison cells to be taken out and executed. Their dreams, fantasies and recollection relieve what might otherwise seem to be an unnecessarily repetitive situation. The internationally known French star Matthieu Carrière plays one of the condemned men. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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The post Károly Makk – Magyar rekviem Aka Hungarian Requiem (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Broadway star Fitzroy Wynn is thrilled when his wife Lily writes a new script with a brilliant lead role. While ego-centric Fitz thinks himself perfect for the role, Lily dashes his hopes when she admits she wants to find someone different for the part. Fitz refuses to give up his pursuit. Enlisting the reluctant help of his agent, Fitz poses as Roberto Terranova- a young Italian actor and the exact model of what Lily wants for the role. But trouble arises when Lily appears to be falling for the charming Italian and Fitz is left to wonder just how serious she was about finding someone different.

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