A 42-year-old woman wants a baby. Her married boyfriend says no. Enter: one chaotic teenage orphan.
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
Direction
Mészáros's intimate handheld camerawrecks you without warning.
Acting
Berek's face does more acting in silence than most monologues.
Director
Márta Mészáros
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
First Hungarian film directed by a woman, and it won the Golden Bear at Berlin — beating out Scorsese's Taxi Driver. The communist censors were so confused they barely touched it.
Mészáros based Kata partly on herself — she adopted a child as a single mother in her 40s after the state refused to grant her a divorce from her imprisoned husband for years.
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