Dead Landscape

Synopsis

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Cast

Mari Törőcsik

Juli, Kántor felesége

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István Ferenczi

Anti Kántor

Irma Patkós

Erzsi néni

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József Papp

Tanár

István Szilágyi

András Ambrus

Borda Sándor

János Koltai

Priest

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János Pákozdi

Varga Pista

Szergej Elisztratov

Andris, Juliék fia

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István Lugossy

Fotós

Ferenc Paláncz

Benyó János

Crew

Art

• József Romvári Production Design
• Károly Molnár Set Decoration
• Ferenc Schöffer Set Decoration

Camera

• János Zsombolyai Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Fanny Kemenes Costume Design

Directing

• István Gaál Director

Editing

• István Gaál Editor

Production

• István Nemeskürty Producer
• György Falus Production Manager
• András Németh Production Manager

Sound

• András Szőllősy Original Music Composer

Writing

• István Gaál Writer
• Péter Nádas Dialogue