and Tommy Cusack THE other day we went to see a Hungarian film called Angi Vera at the Gate Cinema. cinema full of love for the film directed by Pal Gabor.
By portraying the between Hungarian Party members at a 12-week cadre school in 1948 — when Europe was in tumult aftér the Second World War - Gabor gives us an insight into the nature of Eastern block The bureaucrats are there, right from the beginning But so are the workers Heroes .ine resistance miners, soldiers and women workers the flower of the Hungarian proletariat in d zve en ce ceron ve cos like the 18-year-old Angi selected acuuci alcIy militancy: A RO1 Vera.s • denunciation coraiuls her hospital ant treatment the patients receive.
: ne rarty bureaucrats in tne mum were generally well-dressed males who strutted bout like peacocks But the film drew a sharo divide between them and the bourgeoisie by giving, at the beginning of the film, the old ruling class in the PCISUI airecior or lne nospilai wnose. dearing. manner and status showed him to be the geruine article. The director would have been eclaiv a1 nome on t.e ox o. r while the would be more at home on the top table oi a trade union conterence Two women at the school struggle for Angi Vera's allegiance. One, nagema worker. wno reves in ner own excality and the companionship of the Jest of the women. She continually defies MERA dee oreReo soerener owt ersonality Wę learn later that she ha so been an organiset of laad seizures a We left the relationships countries moverenl.
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hero the nevertheless been weight bt ne Maria, is an other W.UCH (a. journalist!): Angi Vera does well at the cadre school.
Her distrust the leadership makes her severely rebuke Vera Party ubot oue cassae or cr laye and uncritical acceptance of everything accused resistance who emittered by the oWn. sacrisces 1oi Trajan feels her separation from the life of the workers acutely. She enves mne colecuve domtory. asuusice by a conversation about sex among the La 'deviation' among the proletarian and peasant women which she 'denonces petit- Vera, ponders bourgeois! A determined follower of the leadership, teaches oculay dl old accusen the co ansis. the and Socialist Party.
nyse ecoce ber*e o lovers, both married men with children. Neubauer, a miner who with his comrades sant iwo wee su us mre nour hao er ea cher at he schooli on, aad the reaction, been a Party member since his first vear a University.
Their attitudes to Vera are different, The miner, in openly revealing his lave for why a communist can't cance his to married?' asks the worker.
TaSe Vi unificațion The teacher on the other wants to seeo wiln vera wale ds amay is away, never questions his own marriage depressed by eraraon .ION course which he clearly sees as invitable. Vera chooses the away wo ms room l u night. Trajan is persuaded to turn a blind eye to the affair because Andre is after all a teacher. Maria, who thinks Angi Vera is nes cramera activities and forces Angi Vera to retur, the down 'How dar UKC leaders Vera tries to shut her itself. Prize fine car.
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three days only. ust Challen