In the glittering international career of Dutch actress Johanna ter Steege, her shaping of several memorable female characters represents a special chapter in Hungarian film history.
Ter Steege showed an interest in acting from a very early age, she attended schools of drama at Kampen and then at Arnhem, and she took part in the founding of the theatre named De
Trust. She started working as a film actress from the end of the 1980s, initially in the work The Vanishing (1988). Having won the European Film Academy prize for best female supporting role, she found herself much in demand with top foreign directors. In 1990, Robert Altman approached her for a part in Vincent & Theo, but she also appeared in French and German productions. Similarly to Udo Kier, Johanna ter Steege is also associated with Hungarian filmmaking in several ways. She has worked for the Hungarian Oscar-winning director István Szabó twice, firstly on Találkozás Vénusszal/Meeting Venus (1991), and then in Édes Emma, drága Böbe/Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (1992). The character of Emma (dubbed by Ildikó Bánsági) was both passionate and playful, dominant and vulnerable, thus she became one of the symbolic figures of the times around the change of regime. Over the past few years, audiences have  seen the actress in Ferenc Török’s Isztambul/Istanbul (2011) and Bálint Kenyeres’s Tegnap/Yesterday (2018). A recently restored copy of Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe is presented in Urániá National Film Theatre on the closing day of the Film Marathon.

Meet-and-greet: 09.11. 20.00 Uránia National Film Theatre (Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe – Closing gala)