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Adoption (Hungarian: Örökbefogadás) is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear. The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a ...
Adoption. Trailblazing auteur Márta Mészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Adoption is a tender film that explores the relationship between an orphaned teenage girl and a middle aged woman who wants to have a child of her own. However, the only person she'd consider having a baby with turns the idea down.
One of Márta Mészáros’s best-known films, this bracingly intimate and still-relevant drama is a moving inquiry into middle-aged loneliness and the conflicted yearning for familial belonging. Emotionally astute yet deftly subtle, Adoption won the first Golden Bear awarded to a woman director.
Apr 1, 2022 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com A quiet, melancholic portrait of a woman aching for a meaningful relationship which has thus far eluded her, much of Adoption feels like a ...
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Mar 29, 2022 · Kata (Katalin Berek) is a middle-aged factory worker who has decided she must make a drastic move. Having carried on a relationship with a married lover, she decides she must leave him because he refuses to give her the one thing she desires – a child.
This is a film full of strong female faces – looking directly to camera, or each other. When Kata’s (Berek) married lover refuses her wish for a child, their apparently mutually cozy arrangement is shattered, but something else, more satisfying, starts to develop.
