Classics Film Marathon / Closing Ceremony: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe
drama, Hungary, 80 min, 1992
in Hungarian with English subtitles
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Director: István Szabó
Screenplay by Szabó István
Director of photography: Koltai Lajos
Music by Móricz Mihály, Bornai Tibor, Nagy Feró, Robert Schumann
Cast: Johanna Ter Steege (Bánsági Ildikó), Börcsök Enikő, Andorai Péter, Kerekes Éva, Mucsi Zoltán, Temessy Hédi, Pásztor Erzsi, Patkós Irma, Jordán Tamás, Máté Gábor
Special guests: Johanna Ter Steege, Enikő Börcsök and István Szabó
This film that won a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlinale depicts a sombre snapshot sketching out, for the first time, change-of-regime Hungary as characterized by the fate of teachers of Russian coming up from the countryside. The year is 1989. Emma and Böbe are living in a workers’ hostel in Budapest, attending a crash course in English that they then have immediately to teach. Russian school books are burnt, teachers are mocked. The two girlfriends fall on hard times; Emma starts cleaning while Böbe ends up in prison for illegal money changing and prostitution. Only one could endure.
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