The Upthrown Stone

The Upthrown Stone

1969 · 84 min · ★ 6.7 · Drama

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.

Directed by Sára Sándor · Written by Sándor Csóori

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Lajos Balázsovits Pásztor Balázs
Nadesda Kazassian Irini, Iliasz felesége
Todor Todorov Iliasz
László Bánhidi János bácsi
István Iglódi Halmos Jancsi
Tibor Molnár Kerék András
Katalin Berek Balázs anyja
József Madaras
János Pásztor father of Balázs
Kati Berek mother of Balázs
József Bihari grandfather of Balázs
Lajos Őze college teacher

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