Adoption (1975 Berlin Golden Bear Winner)

Published: July 12, 2023, 6 a.m.

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption. Written and directed by Márta Mészáros and starring Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh and László Szabó, Adoption was the first movie by a female filmmaker to ever win the Golden Bear.

The contemporary review quoted in this episode comes from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/02/archives/film-a-widow-adoptshungarian-work-opens-modern-art-series.html).

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