The ELTE– NFI FILMIO University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.
Márta Mészáros’s protagonist is a truly independent character who follows her own path despite social expectations. Juli, who is studying agricultural engineering by correspondence, starts working as a trainee at the brick factory in Ózd. János Bodnár, the foreman, immediately takes a liking to her and proposes marriage the very next day. She refuses, but later ends up with the persistent suitor. She does not tell him that she already has a child from a previous relationship. Bodnár finds out the truth and seems willing to accept the little boy, but he hides his existence from his own relatives. Juli, who is now expecting their child, tells the family everything despite the man's prohibition. Bodnár is unable to forgive the woman and breaks up with her. In Márta Mészáros's feminist film, ahead of its time, Lili Monori, who plays the female lead, gave birth to her child in front of the cameras.
Date: 4 March 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: University Square Campus, Weiss Emilia Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3., ground floor, in the corridor next to the cloakroom)
Director: Márta Mészáros
Screenwriter: Márta Mészáros, Gyula Hernádi
Cinematographer: János Kende
Editor: Andrásné Kármentő
Music: György Kovács
Main cast: Jan Nowicki, Lili Monori, Kati Berek, Djoko Rosić, Hedvig Demeter, Mária Dudás
Our guest in the post-screening discussion will be historian Izabella Grexa, PhD, secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Department of Philosophy and History, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Faculty of Humanities Momentum (Lendület) Research Group on Work Forms. Her areas of research include 20th-century social history, everyday history and women's history. She is the author of Csupa paradicsom az élet – Felügyelet és önfejűség egy 20. századi női élettörténetben (Life is All Paradise – Supervision and Stubbornness in a 20th-Century Woman's Life Story).
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VVQJczwfrU
Due to limited seating, advance registration is required: https://www.ajk.elte.hu/kilenc-honap-meszaros-marta-filmje-1976
The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.
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