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In István Szabó's second feature
film, the director focuses on a Hungarian boy, Tako (Dani
Erdélyi), living in Budapest just after the end of
World War II. His father (Miklós Gábor),
a doctor and member of the partisan resistance to the Nazis, was
killed just as the war ended, leaving the very impressionable boy
with mixed-up memories and a curiosity about his father's life that
turns into an unsettling hero worship. The story is told in a
series of flashbacks--some of them factual, some inspired by the
tall tales about his father that Tako tells his friends to impress
them. &&Shot in black and white by Sándor
Sára, who would do wonderful color work in
Szabó's 25 FIREMAN'S STREET, the film's present-time
action has a historical feel and, when combined with actual news
footage in the flashbacks, forms a smooth transition between the
different times. A third period is added when Tako, now played by
András Bálint, reaches adulthood at the
time of the Russian invasion in 1956. He becomes involved in the
radical youth movement and feels he must emulate his father's
bravery. When Tako meets Anni (Katalin Sólyom), a
Jewish woman, the story of her parents death in Auschwitz causes
him to re-examine his memories of his father. Szabó's
episodic, well-staged and -acted film evocatively captures the
feelings and attitudes of the first generation of Hungarians to
grow up after the war.
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