1980 · hungarian · drama · wartime
The Heiresses
Directed by Márta Mészáros1h 45m1980
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to have a child by her husband.
Our read: The Heiresses (1980) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded hungarian · drama · wartime 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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