1958 · hungarian · drama · rural
The House Under the Rocks
Directed by Károly Makk1h 36m1958
Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.
Our read: The House Under the Rocks (1958) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded hungarian · drama · rural 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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