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Dead Landscape(1972)
Status: Released
Date: 1972-04-06
67%
6 Votes
Time: 1h 35m
Overview:
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
Languages: Hungarian.
Countries:
Hungary
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Dead Landscape
Top 10 Billed Cast
Törőcsik Mari
Juli, Kántor felesége
Patkós Irma
Erzsi néni
Szilágyi István
András Ambrus
Borda Sándor
Koltai János
Priest
Szergej Elisztratov
Andris, Juliék fia
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Overview
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
Release Date
1972-04-06
Average
6.667
Rating:
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