Another Way

UPC: 736899058623

Studio: Bunyik Entertainment

Summary: Another Way is another above-average study of a human being in conflict with the status quo from the Hungarian director of The House Under the Rocks (1958) and Love (1971). Our first view of the character played by Jadwiga Jankowski Cieslak is a closeup of her corpse. In flashback, we learn that Cieslak had been a female journalist in the strife-torn Hungary of 1958. The film explores her efforts to report facts in the face of governmental fallacy, as well as her long homosexual affair with Grazyna Szapolowska, another journalist. Withheld from Hungarian release for several years, Another Way proved to be a film-festival success internationally. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Audience Award – Săo Paulo International Film Festival Best Actress – Cannes Film Festival

Another Way

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 09/26/2006

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 103 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitles: English

Richard Gilliam

Another Way is more personal than most politically oriented films made in Hungary during the years before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Writer/director Karoly Makk combines sexual and political themes in a manner that sustains interest in each. While the political slant of the film is decidedly anti-Stalinist, it is the relationship between its two protagonists that gives the film its texture. The film's lesbian love story was perhaps more shocking to government officials than the film's complaints about the government. For whatever reason, release of the film was delayed, though it did do well on the European festival circuit. ~ Richard Gilliam, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Peter Andorai  Actor 
Gabor Reviczky  Actor 
Judit Hernadi  Actor 
Károly Makk  Director 
Károly Makk  Screenwriter 
Giorgio Moroder  Composer (Music Score) 
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak  Actor 
Grazyna Szapolowska  Actor 
Josef Kroner  Actor 

Country: Hungary