The film’s protagonist, a brain surgeon, performs an illegal abortion for his lover, who subsequently dies. The tormented man flees to his father's house on Lake Balaton. While the raising of public issues became a key trend in Hungarian new wave, this film saw Makk withdraw from the social scene. In the movie adapted from Imre Sarkadi’s most successful drama, every motif of the existential drama appears in the landscape: the winter-time Balaton is a universal image of total loss in which the austere, frozen lake and the bare snowy lakeside are reflections of conscience and emotional void.
National Film Institute - Film Archive, Restoration Premiere
Supporting film:
From Dawn to Dusk (12)
Reggeltől estig, Hungarian animation, colour, 1967, dir: György Kovásznai, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, 9’
This etude made up of captured snaps having a sociographic impact and expressive photo-collages by Dezső Korniss is the satirical apotheosis of the single, working urban woman from the second half of the 1960s.
