Márta Mészáros Movies

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.

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...

A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't...

Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.e. parties...

A documentary short film directed by Márta Mészáros.

Péter, a literary critic, is tasked by the secret police to persuade Social Democratic politician, Anna Kéthly, who has been living in...

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

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has...

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

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

A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok

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...

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...

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...

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

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For...

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

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...

The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

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