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KISVILMA: AZ UTOLS� NAPL�
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Hungary - Germany - Poland
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 115 min.
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LITTLE VILMA: THE LAST DIARY / LA PETITE VILMA: LE DERNIER JOURNAL
The fourth and last of M�rta M�sz�ros' semi-autobiographical diary series, this film recounts the experiences of Vilma (the director's alter ego) in the '30s and '40s when she lived with her parents in Kirgizstan, the Central Asian republic which was at the time part of the Soviet Union. The director's father, a Hungarian sculptor, was one of the many European intellectuals enticed by the Communist political experiment. But like so many of his comrades, he was arrested and executed during the Stalinist purges of 1937-38. Treated like an enemy of the state, little Vilma -- whose mother has died in 1942 -- is taken away to be educated at a Young Soviets school, and she is only allowed to return to Hungary after being adopted by a Spanish revolutionary friend of her parents. Now, grown-up Vilma has come back to the stunningly beautiful Kirgiz landscapes of her childhood. Here she finally gets written proof that her father was shot for allegedly passing secrets to the Germans. Memories flood back, but they are bittersweet.
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Script: M�rta M�sz�ros, �va Pataki.
Phot.: Nyika Jancs�.
Ed.: Cezary Grzesiuk.
Cast: Jan Nowicki, Barbara Hegyi, Kitty K�ri, Lukas Nowiczki, Cleo Lad�nyi, Lili Monori.
Prod.: Csaba Bereczki, K�roly Makk,�j Dial�g Filmst�di�, c/o Magyar Filmuni�, V�rosligeti Fasor 38, 1068 Budapest (Hongrie), t�l.: (36-1) 351 77 60, fax: (36-1) 352 67 34, e-mail: [email protected].
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M�rta M�sz�ros
Born in Budapest in 1931, M�rta M�sz�ros emigrated with her family to the Soviet Union in 1936. After graduating from the VGIK film academy in Moscow, she returned to Hungary in 1958 where she began working at the Budapest Newsreel Studio, making documentaries on popular science, art and other subjects. She directed her first feature, THE GIRL, in 1968 and has since become one of Hungary's most prolific and honoured cineastes. Among her films are: DON'T CRY, PRETTY GIRLS (1970), RIDDANCE (1973), ADOPTION (1975), NINE MONTHS (1976), THE TWO OF THEM (1977), ON THE MOVE (1979), MOTHER AND DAUGHTER (1981), DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN (1982, Special Jury Prize at Cannes), DIARY FOR MY LOVED ONES (1987), BYE BYE RED RIDING HOOD (1988), DIARY FOR MY FATHER AND MOTHER (1990), THE SEVENTH ROOM (1995) and DAUGHTERS OF LUCK (1998). |
