Déryné, hol van? (1975)
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Mari Töröcsik, Ferenc Kállai, Mária Sulyok, Imre Ráday
A celebrated Hungarian theater actress weighs retirement as age and changing tastes unsettle her confidence onstage.
The story
Over three days, Hungarian theater actress Déryné Róza Széppataki considers retiring from the stage. Although she is at the height of her art, she feels that age is diminishing her beauty and that her style of acting is no longer fashionable. Her husband, absent for eighteen years, reappears with an offer of a peaceful family home and bourgeois life that could free her from her worries. The offer presents Déry with a possible life away from the theater as she questions her future onstage.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Three days in the life of Déryné Róza Széppataki, a Hungarian theater actress of the [century unspecified]. Déry is at the height of her art, but feels that at her age her beauty is fading and her style of acting is no longer fashionable, and considers retiring from the stage. Déry's husband, who has been absent for 18 years, reappears and offers her a peaceful family home and a bourgeois life that would free her from her worries. Déry leaves with him, then realizes that she is not made for that world, but for the world of the theater, with its struggles, failures, and successes.
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