Directed by:
István SzabóCinematography:
Lajos KoltaiCast:
Sándor Csányi, Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes, Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov, Csaba Pindroch, Erika Marozsán, Jiří Menzel, István Szabó, Teri Tordai, Vera Venczel (more)Plots(1)
The film is the second, faithful adaptation of Zsigmond Móricz's novel. The late nineteen-twenties, a little town in the Hungarian plain. István Kopjáss, the protagonist, and his wife Lina are landless offsprings of families once belonging to the nobility. Lina is does her best to preserve the looks of nobility from her husband's, a young lawyer's salary as a civil servant, when Kopjáss all of a sudden is elected attorney general of the town. As a clever, talented man he soon recognizes how, in its present state, he might boost the town with the help of the hog raiser, how to ease the misery of the small tenants. The leaders of the town, though only interested in power and money, and tied together by the strings of common corruption, like the attorney general's idea: the principle of "everybody being satisfied". But first of all they want Kopjáss to eat out of their hand. The attorney general, snared in their trap, escapes into suicide. (InterCom)
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