
Dead Landscape
Drama
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
Top Cast


Mari Törőcsik
Mari Törőcsik
Juli, Kántor felesége
Mari Törőcsik
Juli, Kántor felesége
István Ferenczi
István Ferenczi
Anti Kántor
István Ferenczi
Anti Kántor


Irma Patkós
Irma Patkós
Erzsi néni
Irma Patkós
Erzsi néni
József Papp
József Papp
Tanár
József Papp
Tanár


István Szilágyi
István Szilágyi
István Szilágyi


András Ambrus
András Ambrus
Borda Sándor
András Ambrus
Borda Sándor


János Koltai
János Koltai
Priest
János Koltai
Priest
János Pákozdi
János Pákozdi
Varga Pista
János Pákozdi
Varga Pista


Szergej Elisztratov
Szergej Elisztratov
Andris, Juliék fia
Szergej Elisztratov
Andris, Juliék fia
István Lugossy
István Lugossy
Fotós
István Lugossy
Fotós
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