Adoption

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Plot

The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened by an unhappy love affair (she realizes that all fault lay with the man), Kata helps free Anna from her family's influence. Anna gets married, while Kata adopts a child from the institution where Anna had previously dwelled. A winner of several film awards in its country of origin, The Adoption was directed by Marta Meszaros, the wife of renowned Hungarian filmmaker Miklos Jancso. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

  • Kati Berek - Kata Csentes
  • Laszlo Szabo - Joska
Flora Kadar

Credit

Márta Mészáros - Director, Eva Karmento - Editor, Gyorgy Kovacs - Composer (Music Score), Lajos Koltai - Cinematographer, Luciano Tovoli - Cinematographer, Ferenc Grunwalsky - Screenwriter, Gyula Hernadi - Screenwriter, Márta Mészáros - Screenwriter

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Adoption

Video release poster
Directed by Márta Mészáros
Starring Katalin Berek
Music by György Kovács
Editing by Éva Kármentő
Distributed by Kino Video
Release date(s) February 1975 (1975-02) (Berlin)
25 September 1975 (1975-09-25)
Running time 89 minutes
Country Hungary
Language Hungarian

Adoption (Hungarian: Örökbefogadás) is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It tells the story of a Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear.[1] The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

Contents

Cast

  • Katalin Berek - Csentesné - Kata (as Berek Kati)
  • Gyöngyvér Vigh - Bálint Anna
  • Péter Fried - Sanyi
  • László Szabó - Jóska
  • István Szőke
  • Flóra Kádár - Erzsi, Jóska felesége
  • Janos Boross - Anna apja
  • Erzsi Varga - Anna anyja
  • István Kaszás - Intézetigazgató
  • Anikó Kiss
  • Zsófi Mészáros
  • Judit Felvidéki
  • Irén Rácz
  • Erika Jozsi - (as Józsa Erika)
  • András Szigeti

See also

References

  1. ^ "Berlinale 1975: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1975/03_preistr_ger_1975/03_Preistraeger_1975.html. Retrieved 2010-07-11. 
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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