Les lundis hongrois - « La maison au pied du rock » de Károly Makk

After the retrospective dedicated to István Szabó, the Institut Liszt Paris, the Archives of the National Film Institute of Hungary, and cinema Le Champo join forces to present, during 2026-2027, a selection of 9 films by one of the masters of Hungarian cinema, Károly Makk.

La maison au pied du rock, the second film in the Károly Makk retrospective, will be screened on November 9 at Champo.

Ferenc Kós returns home in 1945, a broken Soviet prisoner of war. His wife has passed away and Tera, his sister-in-law, takes care of him. Rumour has it that she is trying to seduce him because she is secretly in love. The situation turns around when Ferenc recovers and brings home a lovely bride. The tension among the three of them reaches its peak. The film, built on silences and sombre visual elements, deals with profound existential dramas and the depths of the soul during a period of re-ideologization.

Presentation of the film by Joël Chapron, specialist in Eastern European cinema, associate researcher at the Université d’Avignon.

La maison au pied du rock / Ház a sziklák alatt

Hungary / 1958 / 101 min / Original version with French subtitles

A film by Károly Makk

Screenwriters: Károly Makk, Sándor Tatay

Director of Photography: György Illés

With János Görbe, Irén Psota, Margit Bara, József Bihari, Viola Orbán, Sándor Deák

Producer: Hunnia Filmstúdió

Venice 1958 Information Section – Best Film San Francisco 1958