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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329036928
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 2004
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 57672
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 04, 1967
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Must-See Gem of European Cinema
With his film Father, Hungarian film titan Istvan Szabo created a watershed film about the coming of age of a boy who lost his father while still a small child, and who, as he grows up, fills the void left by his father's premature death by reconstructing who the man was in his imagination.
The movie has a two-part structure, the first focusing on the boy while still in grade school, the second part showing him as a young man. The latter part is played by Hungarian film and theater legend ... Read More
Rating: - Well worth seeing
If you're curious about Hungarian cinema, and "Mephisto" is the only Szabo film you've seen, take a chance on this excellent, much earlier black and white effort.
"Father" reminds me of some of Truffaut's films about childhood and coming of age, but the unique experience of Hungary and Hungarians in the 20th century lends Szabo's film a special poignacy worlds apart from Truffaut. Not that you need to know all the ins and outs of 20th Century Hungarian history to appreciate the film, but ... Read More
Rating:  - Fathers & Sons
A boy needs his father, so the saying goes. I don't know how much truth there is to that statement, but it's what Istvan Szabo's film is all about.
Tako (played as a child by Daniel Erdely and as an adult by Andras Balint) has vague memories of his father who died after WW2. His entire life though consist of trying to assemble the pieces of his father's life. Like most boys growing up he would like to think his father was\is a hero. So sometimes he just flat out lies to his friends about ... Read More
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