Two Stories from the Recent Past
1979, Hungarian. Directed by Károly Makk.
Károly Makk strings together two novellas by Tibor Déry. A téglafal mögött is set in the early 1950s. Comrade Bódi, an embittered party worker, reports his fellow workers who are stealing ‘the assets of the people’ from the factory. During the subsequent public investigation, one of them commits suicide. The camera of Makk tells the story of the period through the crumpled face of Jozef Króner, the blank, hopeless stare of Mari Törőcsik and images of a decaying factory site. In Philemon és Baucis, like in Szerelem, the subject of ageing is tied to the traumas of the 1950s. History turns the idyllic private life of an elderly couple (Elma Bulla and Antal Páger) upside down. The 1956 uprising sweeps an injured fighter their way. The old man helps as best he can while his wife desperately tries to save her husband…
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- 1h 36m
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- Language
- Hungarian
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- Released
- 1 January 1979
- Original title
- Két történet a félmúltból
- Country
- Hungary
- Written by
- Tibor Déry, Károly Makk
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Two Stories from the Recent Past runs 96 minutes (1h 36m).
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Two Stories from the Recent Past isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1979. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Two Stories from the Recent Past?
Two Stories from the Recent Past (1979) was directed by Károly Makk and stars István Avar, Mari Törőcsik, Elma Bulla.