Diary For My Children

A bleak, joyless tale of Stalinist purges in Hungary during the 1943-1956 period, starring Czinkoczi as a teenage Hungarian girl whose father disappears in the Soviet Union after being arrested without explanation. When Czinkoczi's mother dies, she returns to Hungary to live with Polony, a former revolutionary and now a deeply political newspaper editor. Polony's strong political convictions turn Czinkoczi away. The young girl retreats to afternoons in movie houses with Polony's friend, Nowicki, a factory worker who eventually ends up in prison for his beliefs. Czinkoczi pays regular visits to Nowicki in his cell because he reminds her of her father (in fact he is ...