1992 · hungarian · drama · post-communism
Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe
Directed by István Szabó1h 21m1992
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
Our read: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (1992) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded hungarian · drama · post-communism entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured hungarian / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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