Árvácska (1976)

Directed by

László Ranódy

Genre

drama film

Country

Hungary

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s Hungary, a young orphan girl named Csore endures extreme cruelty and suffering among the peasantry. The film shows her hardships with stark realism.

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What happens

Nobody's Daughter (Hungarian: Árvácska) is a Hungarian film released 4 March 1976. Based on a book by Zsigmond Móricz, the film tells the story of Csöre, an orphan girl living among the peasantry of Hungary in the 1930s. It stars Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, then age seven, as main character Csöre, also known as Árvácska. Árvácska means literally "little orphan" and it's also the Hungarian name of the violet flower. The film depicts the suffering of an orphaned girl with the greatest possible naturalism. It is shocking, depressing, and—like the novel itself—heartbreaking. The cruelty and torture that Csora endured are felt by the viewer with almost equal pain. There have been few works in European cinema that are so frank and, moreover, so firmly grounded in reality since Moritz’s novel about a girl named “Chibe,” whom he prevented from committing suicide on the Szabadság Bridge.[1] The film continues to shock and even depress audiences. Many question the age rating for children under 12, as it contains excessive violence and Csora is shown naked for almost the entire film.[2] According to some sources, the film was seen by a million people in the year of its release.[3] The film was released in the United States under the title Nobody's Daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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