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Fetus
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| Hungary, 1993, 105min, 35mm, color |
 Márta Mészáros |
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| 36 | Artreon 2 | 2007-04-05 | 20:00 | |  |  |
| 51 | Artreon 2 | 2007-04-09 | 17:00 |  | | |
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The main character of the film, Anna is a young woman with two children, happily married. They started to build a house but the inflation makes the progress slow and her husband loses his job in addition. Anna takes a job in a supermarket. Soon they find out Anna is pregnant again. It takes a long time for the young couple to make up their minds but due to financial difficulties, there is no other solution than an abortion. It is hard to accept for Anna. Then she meets Teresa, a rich businesswoman, who cannot have a baby, and offers Anna to finance the completion of their house if they let her have a child. |
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Fetus in a fresh way is bringing up the maternal matters in the situation of the rapidly growing capitalistic storm that developed just after the breakdown of the socialist system in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
Anna, her husband, and two children find it hard to make a living and also have an unplanned pregnancy. She is in a predicament due to the fact that the construction work on her house is suspended because of inflation also her husband loses his job. Abortion is an unavoidable choice for her. Teréz, a rich businesswoman, privately approaches her and proposes enormous financial compensation for her giving her baby to Teréz secretively. Anna lies to her husband and decides to stay at Teréz¡¯s house hidden until the delivery. Anna, however, encounters some doubtful incidents on Teréz's real desire and longing for a baby which makes her get extremely worried.
Teréz's idea to deal with maternity through using money suggests women¡¯s troubles and difficulties in East European social reality imbued with a confusion of values and moral looseness since the failure of real-socialism. It is a very provocative film exploring the conditions and values on motherhood through two women¡¯s subtle relationship. (NAM In-young) |
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Márta Mészáros
Between 1935 and 1946 she lived in the Soviet Union. Her father, László Mészáros, a sculptor, who emigrated there, fell victim to Stalins cleansing. After graduating from the Union State Film School in Moscow in 1956, she made documentary films in the Bucharest Alexandru Sahia Studio until 1958, then worked for the Hungarian Film Production Company until 1968 as a short-film director. She has been making feature films since 1968.
Selected filmography
1954: Faces Smiling again / ... és újra mosolyognak
1956: Behind Calvin Square / Túl a Calvin téren
1960: Salesmanship / Az eladás művészete (with Miklós Jancsó)
1963: Saturday, 1963 27th July / 1963. július 27. Szombat (d)
1965: Fifteen Minutes about Fifteen Years / 15 perc - 15 évről (d)
1968: The Girl / Eltávozott nap
1968: Binding Sentiments / Holdudvar
1970: Don¡¯t Cry, Pretty Girls / Szép lányok, ne sírjatok
1971: In the Lőrinc Spinnery / A lőrinci fonóban (d)
1973: Riddance / Szabad lélegzet
1975: Adoption / Örökbefogadás
1976: Nine Months / Kilenc hónap
1977: The Two of Them / ők ketten
1978: Just Like at Home / Olyan, mint otthon
1979: On the Move / Útközben
1980: The Heiresses / Örökség
1981: Mother and Daughter / Anna
1982: Diary for My Children / Napló gyermekeimnek (public screening banned until 1984)
1983: The Land of Mirages / Délibábok országa
1987: Diary for My Loves / Napló szerelmeimnek I-II.
1988: Bye-Bye Red Riding Hood / Piroska és a farkas
1990: Diary for My Father and Mother / Napló apámnak, anyámnak
1992: Edith and Marlene / Edith és Marlene (TV)
1993: Fetus / A magzat
1995: The Seventh Room / A hetedik szoba
1998: Daughters of Luck / A szerencse lányai
1999: Little Vilma - The Last Diary / Kisvilma - Az utolsó napló
2001: The Miraculous Mandarin / A csodálatos mandarin (s)
2004: The Unburied Man / A temetetlen halott |
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Director Márta Mészáros
Screenplay Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Producer Ferenc Kardos
Cinematography Nyika Jancsó
Editor Éva Kármentő
Music Michael Lorenc
Sound István Sipos
Production Designer Zsolt Juhász Buday
Cast Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Adél Kováts, Jan Nowicki |
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Magyar Filmunió
1068 Budapest, Városligeti fasor 38, Hungary
Tel 36 1 351 7760
Fax 36 1 352 6734
Email kati.vajda@filmunio.hu |
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