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Diary for My Children

1984
Directed byMárta Mészáros
1h 46m

After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.

CAST
Czinkóczi ZsuzsaJuliAnna PolonyMagdaFöldi TeriMagda (voice)
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Jan NowickiJanos
Sándor OszterJános (voice)
Pál ZolnayGrandfather
Vilmos KunGrandfather (voice)
Mari SzemesGrandmother
Ildikó BánságiJuli's mother
Éva SzabóIlonka - Magda's housekeeper
DETAILS
GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.9

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