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Gyuri

Gyuri

1978 · 97 min · ★ 6.3 · Documentary, Drama

The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.

Directed by Pál Schiffer · Written by Pál Schiffer

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