Love (1971)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | love |
| Original title | Szerelem |
| Country of production | Hungary |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Károly Makk |
| script |
Péter Bacsó Tibor Déry |
| music | András Mihály |
| camera | János Tóth |
| cut | György Sívó |
| occupation | |
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Love (Hungarian Szerelem ) is a Hungarian film drama by Károly Makk from 1971. It is based on the two short stories Szerelem (1956) and Két asszony (1962) by Tibor Déry . The two main female roles are played by Lili Darvas and Mari Törőcsik . The black and white film received in 1971 at the International Film Festival of Cannes the Jury Prize and a special prize.
The film is counted among the film classics by the film critics and was shown in Cannes in 2016 in the "Classics section" in a restored version. Hungarian film critics count the film among the twelve most important films from Hungarian production.
action
The film is set in Hungary during the Stalinist era in the early 1950s. During an action against critics of the regime, János, a film director, was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. His wife Luca has not seen her husband since and is kept in the dark about his condition. She is dismissed from school as politically unreliable. She now has to get by as a newspaper cashier, she is monitored and harassed. Her friends are also paralyzed with fear. The state assigns her subtenants to her large city apartment. In order to live, she now has to gradually sell the valuable furniture.
Her ninety-year-old mother-in-law lives in a small suburban house. She is decrepit and bedridden in a room with her books and a hodgepodge of dishes, blankets and pictures from yesteryear and is cooked by a housekeeper. Luca visits them every day and regularly brings fresh flowers and little surprises with them, they play the game of not wanting to be presented. The mother-in-law is attached to János, her youngest son, she expects great things from him and that he makes her proud, but he was stubborn and cheeky even as a child, just like herself. She is very satisfied with her daughter-in-law and her beauty, and the two are familiar with each other. However, Luca did not tell her about the arrest and conviction of the son a year ago, but instead made her believe that he had traveled to the USA to make a film there. She ensures that the mother receives from her forged letters from her son from America, in which he writes of his successes, but also that he is prevented from returning immediately due to production difficulties. These (supposed) social successes evoke memories of the mother from her own upper-class past. Luca, on the other hand, balances on the verge of a nervous breakdown under the weight of worries about János and the comedy she has to put on. The mother is waiting for János to return, but is becoming increasingly dilapidated and now has to be looked after day and night by the housekeeper and Luca. A stranger caregiver proudly rejects her. She falls into a twilight state and does not die in the arms of her son, as she expected.
A few months after her death, János is suddenly released from prison [after Stalin's death in 1953]. When Luca comes home that evening, János is waiting for her in her room. They assure themselves of their lasting love.
production
After the script had been completed, implementation in Hungary stalled for six years, until the German ZDF subsidized the production from 1969 . The first performance was on January 21, 1971, the German dubbing on May 8, 1972 on the ZDF television program. The film was produced by Mafilm and distributed in Hungary by MOKÉP.
Awards
Szerelem ran at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1971 in the competition for the Palme d'Or , he received the Jury Prize and a special prize. Only the director received a passport for the competition and the award ceremony; the internationally established actress Lili Darvas was also present in Cannes.
The film was named as a Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 1972 Academy Awards , but was not nominated.
Web links
- Szerelem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary , at allemovie
- Szerelem , at Port.hu (hu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Szerelem (Love) , at Festival Cannes, there also further references to the reception.
- ↑ Makk Károly: Szerelem (1970) , near Müpa (Hungarian)
- ^ Love (1970). In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 6, 2018 .