Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.

Starring:

Ádám Szirtes, Ágnes Kamondy, Éva Igó, Anette Antal, Csaba Oszkay, Denes Ujlaky, Ferenc Bács, Gábor Reviczky, Grazyna Szapolowska, Gyula Szabó, Ildikó Bánsági, János Kovács, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Jozef Króner, Judit Hernádi, Judit Pogány, Miklós Szekely B, Peter And

Genre:

Drama, History, Biography