Women Make Waves International Film Festival

  • Home
  • Film Archive
  • Diary for My Lovers

    • Program

    Diary for My Lovers

    Márta Mészáros 1987 Hungary Fiction color 143min Hungarian 35mm
    In the Diary series, Márta MÉSZÁROS gives a wistful portrait of her own childhood through the character of Juli, who grows up in the late 1930s and then spends the war years in the Soviet Union, but her life is incomplete after her mother’s death, father’s disappearance, and lover’s imprisonment in Diary for My Lovers.

    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: Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
    Cast: Ágnes Csere, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Polony
    Music by: Zsolt Döme
    Cinematography by: Nyika Jancsó
    Film Editing by: Éva Kármentõ
    Production Design by: Éva Martin
     

    Magyar Filmunió
    kati.vajda@filmunio.hu

    回上頁