Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

Édes Emma, Drága Böbe, Hungarian drama, colour, by István Szabó, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, 80'

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SCREENINGS

09.11. 20:00
Uránia

Closing gala, Guests: Johanna ter Steege, István Szabó

Directed by István Szabó 
Screenplay by István Szabó 
Director of photography: Lajos Koltai 
Music by Mihály Móricz, Tibor Bornai, Feró Nagy, Robert Schumann
Cast: Johanna ter Steege (Ildikó Bánsági), Enikő Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes, Zoltán Mucsi, Hédi Temessy, Erzsi Pásztor, Irma Patkós, Tamás Jordán, Gábor Máté
Production: Objektív Filmstúdió, Manfred Durniok Production Für Film und Fernsehen
2K restored

Rated: 16

This film that won a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlinale depicts a sombre snapshot sketching out, for the first time, change-of-regime Hungary as characterized by the fate of teachers of Russian coming up from the countryside. The year is 1989. Emma and Böbe are living in a workers’ hostel in Budapest, attending a crash course in English that they then have immediately to teach. Russian school books are burnt, teachers are mocked. The two girlfriends fall on hard times; Emma starts cleaning while Böbe ends up in prison for illegal money changing and prostitution. Only one could endure.