Directed by : Karoly MAKK
Year of production : 1971 Country : HUNGARY Length : 92 minutes
Budapest, 1953.
An old lady lies in her bed that she leaves rarely, but she still wants to live – expectation keeps her alive. She is waiting for her son. Her daughter-in-law fills her life with the most important events. She comes every day. The old lady believes that her son is in America, working on some film. She must not find out that her son is in prison – as a victim of the show trials during the period of the personality cult, and many years have to pass before he will be released. Even if she lived to be a hundred, as the doctor promised, according to the daughter-in-law, it would not be enough.
And the young woman plays her role day after day, to keep the old lady alive…
Karoly MAKK - Director
Tibor DERY - Script / Dialogue
Peter BACSO - Script / Dialogue
János TOTH - Director of Photography
György SÍVÓ - Film Editor
Andras MIHALY - Music
Jozsef ROMVARI - Set decorator
Janos RÉTI - Sound
Mari TOROCSIK - Luca
Iván DARVAS - János
Lili DARVAS - La vieille femme
László MENSÁROS - Le docteur
Erzsi ORSOLYA - Irén
Tibor BITSKEY - Feri
András AMBRUS - Le geolier
Film Still © Pierre Zucca
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