Dead Landscape

Apr 6, 1972

1h 35m

★ 6.7

Overview

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Mafilm

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Cast

Juli, Kántor felesége

Mari Törőcsik

Anti Kántor

István Ferenczi

Erzsi néni

Irma Patkós

Tanár

József Papp

István Szilágyi

Borda Sándor

András Ambrus

Priest

János Koltai

Varga Pista

János Pákozdi

Andris, Juliék fia

Szergej Elisztratov

Fotós

István Lugossy

Benyó János

Ferenc Paláncz

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