Two Stories from the Recent Past
Synopsis
KĂĄroly Makk strings together two novellas by Tibor DĂ©ry. A tĂ©glafal mögött is set in the early 1950s. Comrade BĂłdi, an embittered party worker, reports his fellow workers who are stealing âthe assets of the peopleâ from the factory. During the subsequent public investigation, one of them commits suicide. The camera of Makk tells the story of the period through the crumpled face of Jozef KrĂłner, the blank, hopeless stare of Mari TörĆcsik and images of a decaying factory site. In Philemon Ă©s Baucis, like in Szerelem, the subject of ageing is tied to the traumas of the 1950s. History turns the idyllic private life of an elderly couple (Elma Bulla and Antal PĂĄger) upside down. The 1956 uprising sweeps an injured fighter their way. The old man helps as best he can while his wife desperately tries to save her husbandâŠ
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