“Borderlens” REEES Film Series – Another Way (1982)
Thu, 11/7 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm · 100 Jones Hall
Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Borderlens
Queer Outlines of Geography and Gender
Another Way (1982) – Hungary
In 1958, journalist Éva Szalánczky finds a job at the weekly periodical The Truth. Éva is curious and too daring for what the institutions allow to investigate and publish in post-Nagy Hungary. Her negotiations with truth-seeking and truth-telling happen in an office that she shares with Livia Horváth. Caught between reticence and desire, Livia and Éva will start sharing an attraction. This will lead them through a difficult relationship that seeks to spell out a truth left unclaimed by the structures of surveillance and the fictious seamlessness of gender and citizenship of Cold War Hungary.
Based on a semi-autobiographical novella by Erzsébet Galgóczi and directed by Károly Makk, Another Way combines visual pleasure and narrative cinema in one of the most notable queer filmic texts in Cold War Hungary and Poland.
