HUSZ ORA

Apparently, everything seems to be going on normally in a little village. The farmers work and live in their cooperative in harmony. A journalist has come to spend some time there. As he converses with people and gradually begins to bring the pieces of his report together, however, he slowly discovers the deeply serious nature of the drama that scourges this community, leaving stillopen wounds. Vie setting is the community made up of servants and farm laborers attached to a large noble plantation. The time is 1945 at the eve of the revolution when the land was divided "in the name of the undeniable rights of centuries-old poverty". The protagonists are four poor peasants endowed with dynamism and the spirit of initiative - Antal Balogh, Benjamin Kocsis, Sandor Varga and Jozsef, nicknamed "the president". Now Varga killed Kocsis, Balogh shot at Jozsef, Jozsef brutally beat Varga and then Balogh, who had been hounded by Varga.

"Husz ora is a deeply realistic film. It aims to provide a believable image of reality. In any case, this work of art - and this film is one - is able and willing to accept only chosen, meaningful pieces of reality. The selection, the 'how' of the representation serves to describe a realism that can be interpreted in many ways. The realism of Husz ora takes on its meaning through an impassioned humanism that assumes the task of a great transformation in our lives with their sorrowful and bloody suffering. The film calls our attention to its protagonists, to the real world and real people. Nature and elements from the landscape serve only to underline, to complete, to highlight, and to authenticate the symbols." (Dezso Keresztury, "Filmvilag", 15/3/1965)

Director: Zoltan Fabri.
Screenplay: Miklos Kollo, dal romanzo di Ferenc Santa.
Director of photography: Gyorgy Illes.
Cast and characters: Antal Pager (Jozsef, "il presidente"), Janos Gorbe (Antal Balogh), Emil Keres (il giornalista), Adam Szirtes, Teri Horvath, Jozsef Biliari. Production company: MaFilm (Studio 1), Budapest.