A Hungarian factory romance where pensioners get bling and love gets complicated.
This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.
Direction
Gyarmathy's documentary-trained eye finds poetry in machinery.
Production
Authentic Kőbánya location — you can practically smell the socialism.
Acting
József Madaras brings gruff warmth to Uncle Benda.
Director
Lívia Gyarmathy
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