Cinema
Angi Vera
Pál Gábor · 1979
Synopsis
Hungary, 1948. Angi Vera, an eighteen-year-old nursing assistant and orphan, denounces the state of her hospital at a meeting. Her origins suit the new regime: instead of punishing her, the party notices her and sends her to a cadre school. There she learns the language expected of her, caught between two activists, Traján Anna and Muskát Mária, and falls secretly in love with her teacher, André István, a married man, while around her people watch and report.
Context
The film is based on Endre Vészi's novel, published in 1977, with whom Gábor wrote the screenplay. Shot in 1978, it was released in Budapest on 8 February 1979. Lajos Koltai is credited with the cinematography, and Vera Pap plays the title role. Shown the same year at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, it received the international critics' prize there; Hungary then submitted it for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, without its being selected. It opens the series of Hungarian films that looked back on the fifties.
Who it is for
A drama in colour, with no violence on screen, in which everything plays out in meetings and confidences; listed in France under the title L'Éducation de Véra.
Prizes and reception
The film by which its director became known abroad, praised for the accuracy of its portrait of its heroine.
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