My First Two Hundred Years(1985)

Name: My First Two Hundred Years
Director: Gyula Maár
Released: 1985-01-01
Duration: 99 min
Cast: Zoltán Bezerédi, Dezső Garas, Anna Kubik, Mari Törőcsik, Tamás Major

Zoltán Bezerédi Dezső Garas Anna Kubik Mari Törőcsik Tamás Major

Divided into two different halves separated by mood and subject matter, this is an uneven drama about the experience of one Hungarian Jew before and during the fascist takeover of Budapest. The hero Pali (Zoltan Bezeredi) arrives back in Budapest from the U.S. and meanders among the intellectual and social elite before he leaves for a brief stay in England. There he has an even briefer affair with a happy-go-lucky aspiring actress (Anna Kubik), and after a few other encounters with movie mavens, he heads back to Budapest -- quite inexplicably. The rest of the film deteriorates into a dark realm of hatred and violence.