NAPLÓ APÁMNAK, ANYÁMNAK
DIARY FOR MY FATHER AND MOTHER
October 1956: While the spark of the popular rebellion ignites a devastating fire in the Hungarian society, young Juli finds herself at the film school in Moscow and has to watch the horror from afar without being able to do anything. After Soviet troops have brutally suppressed the rebellion, she returns to her torn homeland and searches for of her missing parents. Márta Mészáros vividly tells the history of a young woman, who doesn’t look away in a time, when one misplaced word can take you to prison. Mészáros captures the claustrophobic atmosphere of a country paralyzed by fear with poetic images and cleverly integrates documentary footage that shows the true extent of the horror. DIARY FOR MY FATHER AND MOTHER is a testament to the horror of totalitarian oppression and similarly a monument to the unwavering courage of all those who fight against it.
Text: Joshua Jádi
Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Nyika Jancsó
Zsolt Döme
Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Jan Nowicki,
Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Bánsági, Anna Polony,
Lajos Balázsovits, Irina Kuberskaya,István Hirtling, Adél Kováts,
Erzsébet Kútvölgyi
Márta Mészáros, - Márta Mészáros (*1931) occupies a unique position in Hungarian and world film history.The director, Kossuth and Prima Prize laureate, winner of awards at the Berlinale,Chicago, Cannes and many other international film festivals, is in herself a historicallegend. Together with her contemporaries Agnes Varda, Larissa Shepitkoand Vera Chytilova, she ranks as one of the most significant female authors inthe world. She is the first Hungarian woman to be awarded a diploma in filmdirecting, she has dedicated her movies to depicting the lives of women (theiridentity, deviance, female rebelliousness, erotic intimacy and Hungarian historyof Stalinism), and her directorial debut attracted global attention.