Márta Mészáros Movies

What if democracy fails citizens by not serving them all equally? What if inequality becomes the norm and the most vulnerable citizens are left...

When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about...

The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A...

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a...

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of...

A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has...

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.

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...

During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to...

A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern...

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need...

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under...

A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ shorts, this work has...

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens...

Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his...

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.