Adoption [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Márta Mészáros Márta Mészáros

Overview

The film zeroes in on two women: Kata, older and widowed, and Anna, a downtrodden young women kept in a children's institution by her unloving parents. Her own sense of self-value strengthened by an unhappy love affair (she realizes that all fault lay with the man), Kata helps free Anna from her family's influence. Anna gets married, while Kata adopts a child from the institution where Anna had previously dwelled. A winner of several film awards in its country of origin, The Adoption was directed by Marta Meszaros, the wife of renowned Hungarian filmmaker Miklos Jancso.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/08/2022
UPC:	0715515269018
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	18,211

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kati Berek	Kata Csentes
Gyon Gyver Vigh	Bálint Anna
Laszlo Szabo	Jóska
Arpad Perlaky	Physician
Flora Kadar	Actor
Gyorgy Kovacs	Composer

Technical Credits

Márta Mészáros

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Gyula Hernadi

Márta Mészáros	Director,Screenwriter
Ferenc Grunwalsky	Screenwriter
Gyula Hernadi	Screenwriter