Márta Mészáros Movies

A documentary short film directed by Márta Mészáros.

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...

Short movie by Marta Meszaros

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

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

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...

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

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 presents several young people from rural areas whom the new communist regime helped to integrate into the labor field of the socialist...

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.

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...

Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage...

Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators

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

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

A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ shorts, this work has...

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...

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...

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...