Directed by:
Zoltán FábriCinematography:
Barnabás HegyiComposer:
György RánkiCast:
Mari Törőcsik, Imre Soós, Ádám Szirtes, Béla Barsi, Manyi Kiss, Gyula Bakos, Antal Farkas, József Juhász, Flóra Kádár, Ervin Kibédi, Mária Kovács, László Kozák (more)Plots(1)
Zoltán Fábri's beloved film is considered one of the finest in all of Hungarian cinema. A love story set against the rural backdrop of communist farming collectives, a young girl (the great Mari Törőcsik in her film debut) falls for farm worker Máté, but is betrothed by her domineering father to another man. This pastoral take on Romeo and Juliet is a rich and achingly beautiful work, framed by the turbulent changes in society taking place at that time. (Second Run)
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This 1950s village drama tells a traditional love story of two young people whose union is not to this around them. The suggestive consuming atmosphere makes you forget the second storyline in which the main character's father joins the cooperative. Among the film's highlights are the meeting of the young people at the fair and their jointly rehearsed dance that precedes their wedding. The delicate emotions expressed on the face of debutant Mari Töröcsik contrast sharply with the raw environment in which her protagonist lives. Imre Soós, on the other hand, forms a decisive solid element in the young couple. It may be symbolic in retrospect that the then-promising Töröcsik is still acting today, both domestically and abroad (for example in Szabó's Sunshine), but this was Soós's penultimate film and he died immediately afterward.
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