“ Sweet Emma, dear Böbe ” ( Hungarian Édes Emma, drága Böbe ) with the subtitle “Sketches, nude figures” ( Hungarian Vázlatok, aktok ) is a Hungarian 81-minute color feature film that was shot in 1991 . Its director and scriptwriter is Istvan Szabo .
| Dear Emma, dear Bobe | |
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| Édes Emma, drága Böbe | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Istvan Sabo |
| Author script | Istvan Sabo |
| In the main cast | Johanna Ter Stehehe , Eniko Berchek |
| Operator | Laysh Koltai |
| Composer | Mihai Moritz , Tibor Bornay , Fero Nagy , Robert Schumann |
| Film company | Objektív Filmstúdió Vállalat, Videovox Stúdió, Mafilm Audio Kft., Manfred Durniok Produktion |
| Duration | 81 min. |
| A country |  Hungary |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1991 |
| IMDb | ID 0105919 |
Content
Story
The film takes place in Budapest during changes in the political system. It shows the loss of soil and the search for a way out for victims of change. Once in the Hungarian schools, the Russian language has ceased to be a compulsory subject, two teachers of the Russian language, Emma and Bebe, are redundant. They are retraining for English teachers in the evening courses. Despite her higher education, Emma is forced to sell newspapers, her love relationship with the cowardly school principal Stefanic is hopeless. The teaching staff loses a sense of security and breaks into pathetic, accusing each other types. In one of the characteristic scenes of the film, naked women lined up in a row, teachers — among them Bebe, nurses, and women who graduated from vocational schools — are waiting with the hope that they will successfully complete the test footage at the film studio. Boebe enters into relations with foreigners, because of currency speculation, she has problems with the police, eventually losing hope, she is thrown out of the window of a pedagogical dormitory.
How the film was adopted
The film was shot with a small budget, compared with the previous films of the director, this is indicated by the subtitle "Sketches, nude figures." The plot is simpler, the heroes are less significant, but the historical present - the time of filming - comes from everyday Hungarian reality. This was often emphasized by the then film critics. .
The film was first shown at the XXIII Hungarian Film Festival , the premiere in cinemas was held on March 20, 1992 .
Cast
- Johanna Ter Stehehe (Emma)
- Enikyo Berchek (Bobe)
- Peter Andorai (Director Stefanic)
- Eva Kerekesh (Sundi)
- Hedi Temeshi (Aunt Maria)
- Erzhi Pastor (Aunt Rozha)
- Irma Patkosh (Aunt Hermina)
- Irene Bodish (Emma's mom)
- Erzhebet Gaal (storekeeper)
- Zoltan Muchi (Silard, art teacher)
- Tamash Jordan (Captain Saglar)
- Gabor Mate (duty officer)
Awards
- 1992 : Berlin - Silver Bear Award
- 1992 : Felix Prize for Best Screenplay, Johanna Ter Steehe nominated for Best Actress
- 1992 : Rome - The Silver Ribbon Award by the Italian Association of Film-Readers for the Best European Director of the Year
- 1993 : Hungarian film critics award Johann Ter Steehe for Best Actress
Literature
- József Marx: Szabó István (Filmek és sorsok). - Budapest: Vince Kiadó, 2002. - P. 330–337, 412. - ISBN 963-9192-46-2 .
- Pál Békés. Édes Emma, drága Böbe (Vázlatok, aktok) (Spanish) // Filmvilág . - 1992. - N o 4. szám . - P. 19-20 .
- "Édes Emma, drága Böbe" (English) on the Internet Movie Database