Plot

A század elsö évtizedében egy kisvárosban játszódik a Balázs Béla önéletrajzi regénye nyomán készült film. Höse a tíz esztendös Herbert (a késöbbi költö), akinek édesapja irodalmat tanít a gimnáziumban. Herbert élete látszólag fel- hötlen, ám édesapja helyzete megromlik baloldali kapcsolatai miatt, betegeskedni kezd, s hamarosan meghal. Édesanyja nem kap munkát, a fövárosba költöznek. Herbert ifjúsága így ér véget, s tapasztalatai alapján formálódik világképe.
Herbert boldogan éli gyermekkorát a század eleji Magyarország egyik kisvárosában. Új barátja, Ödön színt, izgalmat visz életébe, közös rejtekhelyet találnak egy raktárhelyiségben. Egyszer egy szökött intézeti lányt is bezárnak ide, akit Herbert később szabadon enged, és ezzel örökre elveszti barátját...
A film 1975-ben Újdelhiben nagydíjat kapott.
Set in a small town in the first decade of the 20th century, the film is based on the autobiographical novel by Béla Balázs. Herbert Bauer (as Béla Balázs was known at the time) is a ten-year-old boy whose father teaches literature at the grammar school. Herbert's life is seemingly uneventful, but his father's circumstances deteriorate because of his left-wing connections, until he falls ill and dies. His mother can't get a job and they move to the city. This is how Herbert's youth ends, and his experiences shape his world view.
Based on the autobiographical novel by the poet and film aesthetician Béla Balázs, Rózsa's visually stunning second film evokes the ambience of provincial Hungary in the beginning of the century, portraying a young lad's steps into adolescence concurrent with the early rumblings of the Russian Revolution as they begin to be felt in his sleepy town. Hermann is the 12-year-old son of the teacher Mr. Bauer and his wife Jenny, whose hermetic, intellectual world still thrives on the French reading circles of 19th century society. When one such conclave is interrupted by a group of radical Russian emigrés, the Bauers are excommunicated by the town's entrenched establishment, and Mr. Bauer starts a rapid decline. Meanwhile Hermann has formed a friendship with an aggressive boy whose mean streak jars his own fragile sensitivity into radical action. When Hermann becomes witness to a whole universe of contemporary events through the new medium of a traveling cinema show, the old world finally gives way to the new.

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