Father (1966) Apa
Father (1966)
DVDRip | MKV | 704x416 | XviD @ 1502 Kbps | 85 min | 1,19 Gb
Audio: Hungarian AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 704x416 | XviD @ 1502 Kbps | 85 min | 1,19 Gb
Audio: Hungarian AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
Director: István Szabó
Writer: István Szabó
Stars: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély
When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy nonetheless fantasizes about the man his father was, imagining him to have been a hero. Grown into a man himself, Tako (Andras Balint) falls for a Jewish refugee, Anni (Kati Solyom). Burdened by her own heritage as a Jew, Anni sparks in Tako a desire to find out what his father was really like, and he delves into the role his father played in World War II.
A good film with a nice flow. The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (Szabo, Istvan) is clearly determined to find out what he can about his father who died young.All he knows is that he was a doctor and perhaps he was an honoured victim of fascism. He never really finds out but his relationship with his mother, his friends and his Jewish girl friend (of course she has to be Jewish - he is the sheygetz) will make him totally independent of this need to find all about Apa or Father. The movie shows a film being made involving the Holocaust and it is a terrific sequence making the extras walk back and forth and back and forth over the bridge to get them miserable and exhausted - an original idea. This film is good and I have seen it several times without being bored.
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Father (1966) Apa
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