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Dani

1957 · 80 min

A quiet, earnest postwar drama that asks you to sit with a small family's fragile happiness and worry over it.}{.

Directed by: Mihály Szemes
Genres: Drama
Starring: Klári Tolnay, Margit Bara, Antal Páger

Overview: Dani, the few-month-old little boy born outside marriage is left by Eszter in the lap of her companion on the train. The widowed Aranka takes him willingly to her. The child is already ten years old and has a good life with Aranka. Then Géza enters their life and he does not welcome the child of someone else.

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Directed by: Mihály Szemes
Genres: Drama
Starring: Klári Tolnay, Margit Bara, Antal Páger

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
parenthood
found family
identity
betrayal
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Mihály Szemes
Written by: Marianne Szemes, Mihály Szemes
Starring: Klári Tolnay, Margit Bara, Antal Páger, György Weiser, Ferenc Kállai, Béla Barsi, László Csákányi, László Csörgei
Cinematography: Barnabás Hegyi
Runtime: 80 min
Country: Hungary
Languages: Hungarian

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