Kilenc honap
Hungary,
1976, 93 min
Shown in 1977
CREDITS
- dir
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Márta Mészáros
- scr
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Gyula Hernádi, Idikó Kóródi, Márta Mészáros
- cam
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Janós Kende
- cast
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Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki, Djoko Rosié
- prod co
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Hunnia Studio
- source
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Newomen Films
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COMMENTS
Shown October 10 and 11, 1977.
OTHER
Winner of the International Critics Prize at Cannes, this is the best film yet by the award-winning Hungarian director, Marta Meszaros, whose last film The Adoption was one of the hits of the 1975 San Francisco Film Festival. Lili Monori gives a flawless performance as a single mother doing advanced studies in agriculture at a university. Against her better judgment, she becomes involved with an associate who wants to marry her, but who resents her child and her desire for a career. The tension between her independence and his chauvinism is explored with the spare, controlled attention to nuance and detail which characterizes the work of this leading East European director.
FACTOID #219
Daniel Talbot, editor of Film: An Anthology , was the first recipient of the Mel Novikoff Award in 1988. Later he cofounded New Yorker Films, a distribution company that introduced many foreign language films to North American audiences. The Mel Novikoff Award, named after the pioneering San Francisco exhibitor, is given to an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the filmgoing public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.
