After several big-budget co-productions in different countries, Szabó returns to home-Hungary themes in his film "Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe".
This is a fairly low-budget film, the events taking place in a primarily natural environment without lavish staged scenes, the way he directed his first films in the mid to late 1960s. It is a snapshot of an historical watershed period: the socialist system has crumbled and democracy is replacing the ancient regime. Depicting school as a central pillar of society, the director paints a convincing picture of the poignancy of the process of change. The two young Russian teachers who are the lead characters are no longer needed, the teaching of the subject having been discontinued, and they move from country to city and become intoxicated with a feeling of freedom.
They are sucked up by the fashionable nouveau lifestyle, replete with passing foreign acquaintances, currency trading, prostitution and other temptations of a society that has no restrictions.
Hungary 1992
Dear Emma Sweet Böbe
Édes Emma, drága Böbe
K14
Genre
Drama
Director
István Szabó
Run time
1h 30min
Cast
Johanna der Steege, Enikö Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes, Irma Patkos
Genre
Drama
Director
István Szabó
Run time
1h 30min
Cast
Johanna der Steege, Enikö Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes, Irma Patkos
After several big-budget co-productions in different countries, Szabó returns to home-Hungary themes in his film "Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe".
This is a fairly low-budget film, the events taking place in a primarily natural environment without lavish staged scenes, the way he directed his first films in the mid to late 1960s. It is a snapshot of an historical watershed period: the socialist system has crumbled and democracy is replacing the ancient regime. Depicting school as a central pillar of society, the director paints a convincing picture of the poignancy of the process of change. The two young Russian teachers who are the lead characters are no longer needed, the teaching of the subject having been discontinued, and they move from country to city and become intoxicated with a feeling of freedom.
They are sucked up by the fashionable nouveau lifestyle, replete with passing foreign acquaintances, currency trading, prostitution and other temptations of a society that has no restrictions.
Hungary 1992
This is a fairly low-budget film, the events taking place in a primarily natural environment without lavish staged scenes, the way he directed his first films in the mid to late 1960s. It is a snapshot of an historical watershed period: the socialist system has crumbled and democracy is replacing the ancient regime. Depicting school as a central pillar of society, the director paints a convincing picture of the poignancy of the process of change. The two young Russian teachers who are the lead characters are no longer needed, the teaching of the subject having been discontinued, and they move from country to city and become intoxicated with a feeling of freedom.
They are sucked up by the fashionable nouveau lifestyle, replete with passing foreign acquaintances, currency trading, prostitution and other temptations of a society that has no restrictions.
Hungary 1992
Info
Rating
Under 14 Not Allowed
Production year
1992
Global distributor
-
Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/21/2013