Love

Szerelem

Hungary

1971

88 Min

Black and White

1.75:1

Hungarian, German

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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CAST Lili Darvas, Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya, László Mensáros, Tibor Bitskey, András Ambrus, József Almási, Zoltán Bán, Éva Bányai

MUSIC András Mihály

Cannes (In Competition): Jury Prize, Special Mention, OCIC Award, Chicago, New York, Karlovy Vary (Tribute)

Synopsis

Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca’s husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be from János who is directing a big film in New York. Luca discovers that János is alive, and is dismissed from her teaching job because of her husband. The dying mother anxiously awaits the return of her son from New York. —IMDb

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