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- The date on the film is 1982, but it was not released until 1984, probably because of trouble with the state authorities who must have objected to the showing of so many political abuses in the film.
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Diary for My Children (Hungarian: Napló gyermekeimnek) is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury. [1]
Diary for My Children: Directed by Márta Mészáros. With Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Teri Földi. Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
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- Biography, Drama
- Márta Mészáros
- 1984-05-03
Mészáros’ Diary for My Children follows an orphan teenage girl named Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkóczi) who, in 1940s Hungary, discovers a previously untapped personal identity through becoming more aware, via direct exposure, of the political injustices that broke her family apart.
The Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros is best-known for her thirteenth feature film, Diary for My Children (1984), the first in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical dramas. Through the teenage protagonist Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkóczi), Mészáros offers a glimpse into her own adolescence in the late 1940s.
Directed by Márta Mészáros • 1984 • Hungary. Starring Czinkóczi Zsuzsa, Jan Nowicki, Anna Polony. One of Hungary’s most acclaimed filmmakers, Márta Mészáros, drew on her own wartime experiences to craft this haunting portrait of a young woman coming of age at a turbulent historical moment.
Diary for My Children. ★★★★½. Recent reviews. ★★★★. After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
Presented at the Film Center as part of The Films of Márta Mészáros, a highlighted retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, newly restored and on the big screen, from June 10—15, 2022. About the film:
