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Adoption
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| Hungary, 1975, 88 min, 35mm, b&w, Drama |
 Márta Mészáros |
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| 44 | Artreon 2 | 2007-04-07 | 20:00 |  |  |  |
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Kata who loves Yoshika wants a baby badly, but Yoshika who is married to another woman strongly refuses the proposal. One day, Anna who is in a shelter asks if she can stay at Kata's while her boyfriend visits for a few days. Kata turns her down at first, but she finally gives in. So Anna can stay with her boyfriend at Kata's house. Anna returns to the shelter after having a trivial quarrel and the local shelter sends Anna only with troubles to the central shelter. Kata tries to help Anna's problem that she wants to get married to her boyfriend, while also thinking of her own problems. |
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This film is Mészáros' peerless masterpiece describing all aspects of different age women everyday lives with a gender perspective on home and work, love and friendship. Kata, who works in a factory and is a single woman over 40, has a lover but he is a married man. For her age, she cannot hold off having a baby any more. Her married lover, however, views Kata's wish as a constraint on himself. One day a teenage girl Anna who lives in an orphanage comes to Kata's home and asks Kata to let her meet her boyfriend there. Kata somehow decides to make Anna's wish for marriage come true.
A single woman who wants to have a baby with a married man and a teenage girl abandoned by her parents at 6 years old and living a footloose life on the street seems 'politically incorrect' according to the patriarchal rules. Adoption vividly suggests how seemingly politically correct institution and value really repress and constrain women through the deep relationship between these two women. Especially, the documentary approach through the dynamic camerawork makes possible the vivid presentation on the fact that true voice emerges from the experiences of women living everyday lives. (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 Ferenc Grunwalsky, Gyula Hernádi, Márta Mészáros
Producer Miklós Köllő
Cinematography Lajos Koltai
Editor Éva Kármentő
Music/Sound György Kovács
Production Designer Tamás Banovich
Cast Gyöngyvér Vígh, László Szabó, Flóra Kádár |
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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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Hunnia Filmstúdió
cím, 1145 Budapest Róna u. 174, Hungary
Tel 36 1 221 1815
Fax 36 1 220 8749
Email hunnia@hunniafilm.hu |
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