1979 · hungarian · drama · war
Deliver Us from Evil
Directed by Pál Sándor1h 36m1979
Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)
Our read: Deliver Us from Evil (1979) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded hungarian · drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured hungarian / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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