An outspoken journalist, Éva gets a job at the daily Igazság (Truth) in 1959. There she meets Lívia and immediately falls in love with her. They have to keep their affair secret and the situation is further complicated by the fact that Lívia’s husband is an officer in the domestic security agency... Adapted from the novel by Erzsébet Galgóczi, Károly Makk’s melodrama broke several taboos: it was the first Hungarian film to portray gay love and and was sharply critical of the retaliatory Kádár dictatorship.
National Film Institute - Film Archive, Restoration Premiere
Supporting film:
Fading in Time (6)
Időben elmosódva, Hungarian animation, colour, 1980, dir: Csaba Varga, No Dialogue, 5’
How can one even begin to condense an entire human lifetime into a film running for just a few minutes? We watch, in a parallel montage, as the man runs full-tilt towards the much-desired woman exhibiting the beauty and motionlessness of a statue, in the hope of union. The pulsating contours of the figure painted with India ink are virtually ripped apart by the impetus: the 4-minute short is a race against time.
