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Adoption
Adoption
	Video release poster
Directed by	Márta Mészáros
Written by	Gyula Hernádi; Márta Mészáros; Ferenc Grunwalsky
Starring	Katalin Berek; Gyöngyvér Vigh; Péter Fried
Cinematography	Lajos Koltai; Márta Mészáros
Edited by	Éva Kármentő
Music by	György Kovács
Distributed by	Kino Video
Release dates	February 1975 (Berlin); 25 September 1975;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Hungary
Language	Hungarian

Adoption (Hungarian: Örökbefogadás) is a 1975 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear.^[1] The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 48th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2]

Plot summary

The film tells the story of Kata, a 42-year-old female factory worker who lives alone near a residential care facility for abandoned children. She has a relationship with a married man, with whom she would like to have a child. He declines the offer, and the woman becomes interested in Anna, a girl from the children's home. She helps Anna marry her boyfriend, and decides to adopt a baby from the orphanage.

As Mészáros' Nine Months (1976), Adoption starts with a semi-documentary sequence shot inside a factory.

Cast

Katalin Berek as Csentesné – Kata (as Berek Kati)
Gyöngyvér Vigh as Bálint Anna
Péter Fried as Sanyi
László Szabó as Jóska
István Szőke
Flóra Kádár as Erzsi, Jóska's wife
Janos Boross as Anna apja
Erzsi Varga as Anna anyja
István Kaszás as Intézetigazgató
Anikó Kiss
Zsófi Mészáros
Judit Felvidéki
Irén Rácz
Erika Jozsi as (as Józsa Erika)
András Szigeti

References

^ "Berlinale 1975: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences