The Upthrown Stone (1969)
Synopsis
An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
Release Date: 1969-04-17
Runtime: 84 minutes
Director: Sára Sándor
Top Cast
- Lajos Balázsovits as Pásztor Balázs
- Nadesda Kazassian as Irini, Iliasz felesége
- Todor Todorov as Iliasz
- László Bánhidy as János bácsi
- István Iglódi as Halmos Jancsi
- Tibor Molnár as Kerék András
- Katalin Berek as Balázs anyja
- József Madaras as
- János Pásztor as father of Balázs
- Kati Berek as mother of Balázs
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