The Inheritance / Örökség (1980)
The Inheritance (1980)
DVDRip | AVI | 704 x 528 | XviD @ 1908 Kbps | 99 min | 1,54 Gb
Audio: Hungarian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (srt)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Romance, War
DVDRip | AVI | 704 x 528 | XviD @ 1908 Kbps | 99 min | 1,54 Gb
Audio: Hungarian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (srt)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Romance, War
In this Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the broader picture. In this drama, Sylvia (Lili Monori) cannot have children, and she convinces married Jewish woman Irene (Isabelle Huppert) to have a child and then give the child to her for adoption. The plan works but it also backfires. The way in which the child was adopted causes friction between Sylvia and her husband, and to make matters worse, Sylvia's husband falls in love with Irene. A crisis looms when he asks his jealous wife to give Irene her identity papers because Jews are being deported and Irene will die without their help.
Márta Mészáros (born September 19, 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. Daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film and made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years, before making her first feature film Eltavozott nap (The Girl), which was released in 1968.The first feature film directed by a woman in the history of Hungarian cinema and the winner of the Special Prize of the Jury of the International Film Festival in Valladolid. Her films often combine autobiographical details with documentary footage and deal with the denial of a biographical past, lying and its consequences, and the problematics of gender. Mészáros heroines are often from fragmented families: young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle aged single women hoping to adopt a child (Adoption). Although Mészáros has made over fifteen feature films she is probably best known for her film Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand-Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival and is the first film in a trilogy of autobiographical films that also includes Diary for my Lovers (1987), and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990). Mészáros is also the winner of the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale, Golden medal at the Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
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The Inheritance / Örökség (1980)
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