Diary for My Children

Napló gyermekeimnek

Hungary

1984

106 Min

Black and White

1.78:1

Hungarian

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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CAST Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Teri Földi, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki, Sándor Oszter

SOUND György Fék

Cannes (In Competition): Grand Prix, New York, Toronto, Mar del Plata

Synopsis

From one of the world’s foremost women directors, this deeply personal work is a reflection on Mészáros’ own experiences channelled via Juli, a young woman returning home to Budapest from the Soviet Union where her parents were exiled and had died. Scarred by the wounds of the past, she is repulsed to see the very same spectre of Stalinist oppression now rife in her homeland.

Mészáros’ film resonates with the spirit and the struggles of her past – a passionate yet critical study of personal and political awakening told in ruthlessly unsentimental fashion. –Second Run Films

Director

Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros (born September 19, 1931 in Kispest, Hungary) is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender. In the 1980s, she created the autobiographical Diary series of films.

She married Miklós Jancsó in 1960; though they later divorced, their two sons, Nyika Jancsó and Miklós Jancsó Jr., have separately worked as director of photography on many of her films. In 1978 she directed the film Just Like Home, which starred Anna Karina.

She later became romantically involved with the Polish actor Jan Nowicki. After having lived together for many years, they split up in 2008. Nowicki starred in many of her films, including the principal role in The Unburied Dead. His son from an earlier relationship, Łukasz Nowicki, starred in Mészáros’ Kisvilma. Mészáros became widely known in Poland and has directed some cinema and TV productions… read more

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25Jul11

Saw a trilogy named "Tagebuch für meine Lieben" on German TV in the beginning of 90s. This movie is part of that trilogy. It is full of love for freedom, and sadness about the tragedy of communism, which turned from a freedom movement to a totalitarian regime.