A summer storm, a forbidden press house, and a woman who finally says enough.
Miskei, the popular and dynamic president of a co-op falls in love with Mari, the attractive wife of the elderly Pató. The deeply feeling woman is fed up with the service beside the haughty land holder, she is longing for tenderness and a child. The passion of Miskei is growing when he sees how crudely, humiliating Pató treats her. During a powerful summer shower, when chance brings them together in an abandoned press house, he storms on Mari confessing love. The woman refuses him bitterly. Miskei calms down and he keeps on expressing his love and high esteem with the woman by steadfast and tiny compliments. Early one morning Mari leaves her husband and sets off to the city to learn and to begin a new life.
Acting
Margit Bara's silent revolutions speak louder than dialogue.
Cinematography
That summer storm as emotional weather—unmissable.
Direction
Kovács lets tension build through restraint, not release.
Director
András Kovács
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hungary's brief post-Stalin thaw, the film smuggled feminist critique past censors through rural melodrama.
Margit Bara reportedly insisted on shooting the press house scene in genuine summer rain—no hoses, one take.
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