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Adoption(Örökbefogadás)

  • Dir: Márta Mészáros

  • Hungary, 1975, Hungarian, 88mins, DCP

  • Cast: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó

This sensitive and absorbing slice-of-life drama anchors Mészáros in the pantheon of formidable auteurs, rewriting film history as the first female director to win the Berlinale Golden Bear. Through a chance encounter, a lonely widow and a troubled teenager who escapes from a children’s home are brought together, developing a bond that edges towards a mercurial mutual affection and fulfilment. Delicately encapsulated under her daring facial close-ups are tremulous, unforgettable faces: fatigued yet adamant, confused yet defiant, revealing the weary incandescence of women’s lives that are unorthodox and barely seen in Hungarian cinema of the time.

Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Bear for Best Film

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.