New Arrival Adoption (#1115)

Trailblazing auteur Mrta Mszros 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. Through intimate camera work,Adoptionimmerses the viewer in the worlds of two women, each searching for fulfillment: Kata (Katalin Berek), a middle-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna (Gyngyvr Vgh), a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and political forces that shape womens lives, as each navigates the realities of love, marriage, and motherhood in her quest for self-determination.

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Film Info

• Hungary
• 1975
• 86 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.85:1
• Hungarian
• Spine #1115

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration undertaken by the National Film Institute Hungary Film Archive, supervised by cinematographer Lajos Koltai and approved by director Mrta Mszros, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New video essay by scholar Catherine Portuges
• Interview with Mszros from 2019
• Blow-Ball,a 1964 short film by Mszros
• Mrta Mszros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker,a 1979 documentary by Katja Raganelli featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Elena Gorfinkel

  New cover by Katya Mezhibovskaya