HU 1969 | Director, screenplay: Márta Mészáros | Camera: János Kende, Tamás Somló | Editing: Zoltán Farkas | Production: Ágnes Varga, Mafilm | b/w | DCP | 14 min | hungarian OV with english SUB | Coproduction Office

Márta Mészáros' moving tribute to her father. László Mészáros was a promising sculptor in 1930s Hungary. In 1935, he and his family immigrated to the USSR, to Kyrgyzstan specifically. There, only a few years later, László Mészáros would be arrested and shot in the scope of Stalin's Reign of Terror. Shortly thereafter, Márta Mészáros' mother died while giving birth. These traumatic experiences would become one of the central touchstones in her work, which Márta Mészáros would revisit on multiple occasions in her feature films.

„His art died in 1938 when they took him away. I don’t remember much of my father, so I am trying to re-evoke his image through this film. I want to re-create his life and trace his thoughts, to follow the road that made him a talented Hungarian sculptor.“ (M. Mészáros)