Thirty-year-old Irén dreams of a separate apartment so she can move in with her lover, the married Attila. Hope is sparked by one of the man’s acquaintances, the construction contractor Hevesi, but in order to apply for the larger apartment, she must first enter into a marriage of convenience with the young Gábor. Irén takes out a loan on her modest kindergarten teacher salary, wanders through the mazes of socialist bureaucracy, while Hevesi and her nominal husband harass her with sexual offers, and by the time the day of moving in is within reach, it turns out that Attila doesn’t want to leave his family after all.
A movie from Hungary.
Director: Péter Gothár
Writers: Péter Gothár (screenplay), Péter Zimre (novel).
Stars: Cecília Esztergályos, Pál Hetényi, Judit Pogány, Lajos Szabó, János Derzsi, Eszter Csákányi, Ignac Csoban, Mária Kovács, Tamás Major, Gábor Reviczky, Georgiana Tarjan, Hédi Temessy.
1980 Venice Film Festival – Winner Best First Work.
Subtitled in English.
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