Instead of going to school, a young boy roams the streets of Budapest. With unhappily divorced parents, where else should a lonely child go? A superb example of Mészáros’ early cinema of poetics and social concern where the grit of daily life fuses with moments of weightless joy.
– Olaf Möller
Also in this combined programme
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Márta Mészáros – Portrait einer ungarischen Filmregisseurin
A multivocal portrait of the filmmaker during the shooting of Útközben (1979). -
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At the Lőrinc Spinnery
Women at work in the Lőrinc spinning mill, a scene Mészáros would later return to.
Film details
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1965
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 21'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
