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    The Inheritance

    Márta Mészáros 1980 Hungary, France Fiction color 105min Hungarian 35mm
    A young, rich woman marries a military officer during the World War II era. She desires a child, but she is sterile. In order to bear her own child to inherit her father’s money, she tries to persuade her friend, a Jewish woman, to give birth to a child with her husband for her. She believes that her plan is perfect, except the humanity itself.

    Director

    Márta Mészáros

    Márta Mészáros occupies a unique position in Hungarian film history. Born in 1931, she studied at the VGIK film school in Moscow and afterwards shot numerous documentaries, most of them shorts. In 1968, she made her feature debut with ELTÁVOZOTT NAP (The Girl), which was also the first Hungarian feature to be shot by a woman. In her first features in particular, her cinematic style is marked by documentary realism and precise depictions of different milieus. Notable, working women are always at the heart of her films .

    Márta Mészáros

    1975 Örökbefogadás
    1976 Kilenc hónap
    1980 Örökség
    1984 Napló gyermekeimnek
    1987 Napló szerelmeimnek 
    1999 A Szerencse lányai 
    2009 Utolsó jelentés Annáról


    Directed by: Márta Mészáros
    Writing Credits: Ildikó Kórody, Jan Nowicki, Márta Mészáros, András Szeredás, Miklós Vásárhelyi
    Cast: Isabelle Huppert,Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki
    Music by: Zsolt Döme
    Cinematography by: Elemér Ragályi
    Film Editing by: Annamaria Szanto, Richard Todd
    Production Design by: József Romvári
     

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