Sweet Anna (1958)

Original title

Édes Anna

Directed by

Zoltán Fábri

Genre

drama film

Country

Hungary

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young servant named Anna works quietly for a wealthy Budapest family after World War I. Her employers take advantage of her gentle nature as political tensions build around them, leading to a sudden act of violence.

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What happens

Édes Anna (English: Sweet Anna) is a 1958 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri, based on Dezső Kosztolányi's 1926 novel of the same name. The film stars Mari Törőcsik as Anna, a docile young servant girl whose systematic exploitation by a bourgeois Budapest family during the political upheaval following the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 culminates in a violent act of desperation. The screenplay was co-written by Fábri and Péter Bacsó. Entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, the film drew nearly two million viewers in Hungarian cinemas and is considered one of the classics of Hungarian film history. The film is sometimes referred to in English as Sweet Anna, Sweet Anne or Sweet Ann. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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