Diary for My Children

Name: Diary for My Children
Genre: Biography, Classic, Drama
Released: 1984
Duration: 106 min
Cast: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Teri Földi, Jan Nowicki

Márta Mészáros19841h 46mBiography, Classic, Drama

Why we chose it

Márta Mészáros draws on her own life, with her real-life partner Jan Nowicki in a dual role, for the story of a girl who returns to Budapest from the Soviet Union in 1947 without her parents. The state gives her everything and waits for her gratitude. It will never get it.

Synopsis

Teenage Juli has just come back from the Soviet Union, where Stalin’s purges took her father and her mother died. She’s taken in by Magda, an old friend of the family who has done well under the new order and gives her a good flat and a comfortable life. Juli spends her afternoons at the cinema.