CINE World (Apr 1967)

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that will surely become a world-wide hit. Its action is based on a true story set a hundred years ago, when bands of desperate peasants rebelled against the powerful and merciless landlords. Count Gedeon Raday, then president of the Hungarian Royal Council was known as the most cruel and sadistic enemy of the rebels. di On his orders . a naked woman confronted by two rows of gendarmes was flogged to death. The woman’s lover could have saved her. All he had to do is to tell the names of his fellow rebels. But his determination to stick with the conspirators was unshaken. Silent and strong, the man looks upon the torn and bleeding body of his dying WOM: =: 4-2" The flogging and other cruelties actually took place a hundred years ago in the Hungarian Pusta says film director Miklos Jansco, who turned this macabre happening into a powerful drama, at a cost of $80,000, using only a few professional actors. European critics hail The Hopeless as one of the best films coming from the East block in recent years. Hungarian film critics awarded the film their Grand Prix. At the XIX film festival in Locarno The Hopeless received the international film critics award. Says director Jansco: The story as presented in my film is not a fictitious one. The scenario was based on true historical facts. (The picture on the preceding pages is a scene from The Hopeless. ) i, _ Se a, ——__ ——————