This Hungarian work, shot in 1971, still uses black-and-white film. Director Karoli? Mark is a representative figure in the new wave of Hungarian films. The film captures the human experience under power politics, which is not limited to the love of political prisoners, but also includes family affection, party-state affection, and subtle interpersonal relationships under political clouds. The film tells the story of a terminally ill old woman who misses her son she hasn't seen for a long time. While the son is serving his sentence for political reasons, the daughter-in-law made up the beautiful lie that her husband rehearsed a play in the United States and was too busy to go home to hide the truth, so she made up a letter from the United States to comfort the old man. Soon the old man died of illness. When the wind and clouds changed, the son was released from prison, his home was still the same, but his relatives were not there. The last shot falls on the hugging and crying with his wife, and the picture fades out, which can not help but sigh. The lies under the political change are reminiscent of the German films "Goodbye, Lenin" and "Dad on a Business trip" in the former Yugoslavia, and even reflected in China's "Blue Kite." the cruel reality forms a strong contrast with warm human feelings, which leads to people's pain and confusion in difficult times. What is meaningful is that the film does not do much about the political situation at that time, but focuses on it.
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