Márta Mészáros Movies

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...

A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ shorts, this work has...

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a...

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.

This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need...

When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about...

The film tells about the famous Lithuanian director Vytautas Žalakevičius. The film contains many excerpts from the director's films and...

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...

What if democracy fails citizens by not serving them all equally? What if inequality becomes the norm and the most vulnerable citizens are left...

On receiving a letter from her mother, a quiet working-class girl leaves the state orphanage in Budapest where she grew up and takes a trip to the...

The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

Márta Mészáros' father, the sculptor László Mészáros, was executed during the Stalinist purges of...

Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage...

Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of...

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.

The film presents several young people from rural areas whom the new communist regime helped to integrate into the labor field of the socialist...

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her...

Socialist industry manufactures only those products absolutely required by workers, citizens purchase only those items essential for their everyday...