Adoption
(DVD)

Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Wide screen.

Special features: New video essay by Catherine Portuges; interviews with Mészáros from 2019; Blow-ball, a 1964 short film; Márta Mészáros: Portrait of the Hungarian filmmaker; essay by Elena Gorfinkel.

Directed by Márta Mészáros ; written by Márta Mészáros, Gyula Hernádi, Ferenc Grunwalsky ; music by György Kovács ; cinematography by Lajos Koltai, Márta Mészáros ; film editing by Éva Kármentõ.

Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vïgh, László Szabó

Through intimate camera work, the film immerses the viewer in the worlds of two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata, a middle-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna, a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political forces that shape women2s lives, as each navigates the realities of love, marriage, and motherhood in her quest for self-determination. Trailblazing auteur Mr̀ta Mšzr̀os gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD, wide screen.

Hungarian dialogue; English subtitles.