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The Upthrown Stone (1969)

The Upthrown Stone (1969)

Drama
Release Date: 1969, April 17
Directors: Sára Sándor
Countries: Hungary
Production: Mafilm, Mafilm
Cast: Todor Todorov, Tibor Molnár, István Iglódi, Lajos Balázsovits, Kati Berek, Ferenc Némethy, Lajos Őze, Katalin Berek, László Bánhidy, József Bihari, Nadesda Kazassian, János Pásztor

Overview:

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.