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Mountain Girl (1943)

Mountain Girl poster
Original title
A hegyek lánya
Directed by
Zoltán Farkas
Genre
drama
Country
Hungary
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman living in the Transylvanian mountains gets caught between love and duty to her homeland. The story follows her personal struggles amid the region's return to Hungarian control.

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What happens

Mountain Girl (Hungarian: A hegyek lánya) is a 1942 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Farkas and starring Alice Fényes, István Nagy and Margit Ladomerszky. It is based on a novel by nationalist author Cecile Tormay and is set in Transylvania, part of which had recently returned to Hungarian rule following the Second Vienna Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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