Diary for My Father and My Mother
1990•1h 59m•6.8•Released
Drama
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
Director
Márta Mészáros
Writer
Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Languages
Hungarian
Studio
Hungarofilm
Cast
Czinkóczi Zsuzsa
Juli
Jan Nowicki
János
Mari Törőcsik
Vera
Ildikó Bánsági
Ildi
Anna Polony
Magda
Lajos Balázsovits
Péter
Irina Kuberskaya
Anna Pavlovna
Adél Kováts
Natasa
Tamás Tóth
Andras
Lili Monori
Ibolya
Dobák Lajos
Production
Company
Hungarofilm
Company
Budapest Filmstúdió
Producer
Gábor Hanák
Recommended
7.1
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
6
Lucky Them
2013
6.7
A Dry White Season
1989
6.6
The Safety of Objects
2002
6.1
Holy Lands
2019
5.8
The Girl in the Book
2015
5.8
Strange Weather
2016
7
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
6.8
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
7.3
Reading Lolita in Tehran
2024
6.4
The Trials of Cate McCall
2013
6.3
TalhotBlond
2012
6
The Truth About Emanuel
2013
7.2
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
1998
6.5
Starving in Suburbia
2014
5.9
Hellion
2014
6.4
Hounddog
2008
6.4
I Believe in Unicorns
2015
6.4
Skin
2009
6.9
Eleanor the Great
2025
Similar Movies
4.9
In the Navel of the Sea
1998
7.3
Kiss and Cry
2017
6.6
Things We Lost in the Fire
2007
6.9
Mateo
2014
8
The Fool
1990
5.5
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007
5.7
The Day After
2009
7.1
Across the Universe
2007
Jingga
2016
6.1
Nathalie Granger
1973
7
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
5.8
Escapade
1980
6.7
The 11th Hour
2007
4.7
Caleb
2015
5.9
Subway in the Sky
1959
5.9
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
6
On the Sunny Side
1956
6.8
Brothers
2004
6.3
Las Horas Contigo
2015
5.9
Cherry Tobacco
2014