Diary for My Father and My Mother
6.6
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
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Cast
22 people
Czinkóczi Zsuzsa
Juli
Known for
An American Rhapsody
Jan Nowicki
János
Known for
The Hourglass Sanatorium
The Third Part of the Night
Márta Mészáros
Also in
Notes in Lifestyle Margins
Gábor Hanák
Zsuzsa Czinkóczi
Juli
Mari Törőcsik
Vera
Known for
Music Box
Sunshine
Éva Pataki
Ildikó Bánsági
Ildi
Known for
Mephisto
Anna Polony
Magda
Known for
Decalogue VII
Dark Crimes
Lajos Balázsovits
Péter
Known for
Red Psalm
Irina Kuberskaya
Anna Pavlovna
Also in
The Minister's Wife
The Seven Brides of Lance-Corporal Zbruyev
Adél Kováts
Natasa
Also in
Angyalbőrben
Private foxhound
Márta Mészáros Director · Éva Pataki Writer Nyika Jancsó Cinematographer
First release January 2, 1990 · Produced in Hungary · Production Budapest Filmstúdió
Production
Hungarofilm
Production
Budapest Filmstúdió
Production
Hungary
Produced in
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Original title
Napló apámnak, anyámnak
Original language
Hungarian
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · January 2, 1990
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
March 13, 2001 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
France
March 29, 2023 · Digital · Arte
Netherlands
November 17, 1994 · Amsterdam
Sweden
October 26, 1992 · TV · SVT2
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