Another Way

Egymásra nézve

Hungary

1982

102 Min

Color

1.66:1

Hungarian

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Erzsébet Galgóczi, Károly Makk

CAST Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Grażyna Szapołowska, Ildikó Bánsági, Judit Hernádi, Jozef Króner, Gyula Szabó, Péter Andorai

MUSIC László Dés, János Másik

Cannes (In Competition): Best Actress, FIPRESCI Prize, New York, São Paulo: Audience Award, Karlovy Vary

Synopsis

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth. Winner of best actress prize for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak and the FIPRESCI prize for Károly Makk in Cannes 1982. —hungariant

Director

Károly Makk

Hungarian filmmaker Károly Makk was an important figure in the development of Hungarian cinema after WWII. He made his directorial debut in 1954. Prior to that, he attended the Budapest Academy of Film Art and then was an assistant director on Geza von Radvanyi’s Somewhere in Europe. While his films of the ‘60s were well respected in Hungary, Makk’s work did not receive international recognition until 1971, when his Love won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Since then, he has gained an international reputation. His 1982 film Another Way was the first Eastern European film to deal directly with gay and lesbian concerns. —Sandra Brennan