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    Nine Months

    Márta Mészáros 1976 Hungary Fiction color 97min Hungarian 35mm
    Juli comes to the factory to make a living, and the foreman, János, falls in love with her. Even though János knows about Juli’s child and her past, he is still obsessed with her. Sometimes they laugh together; sometimes they quarrel with each other. Only Juli knows that her life will change because of her pregnancy.

    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: Gyula Hernádi, Ildikó Kórody, Márta Mészáros
    Cast: Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki
    Music by: György Kovács
    Cinematography by: János Kende
    Film Editing by: Éva Kármentõ
    Production Design by: Tamás Banovich
     

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