#so I used to wonder if there ever existed good ''polish lesbian movie'' and here it is... but it's hungarian

[batri-jopa]

Hey, wait a minute, why are there two well known Polish actresses in main roles of Hungarian lesbian film that I never heard about before?🤨

According to Polish Wikipedia:

It was the first film in cinematography of Eastern Europe addressing the topic of female homosexual love. It is also considered one of the best on this topic ever created. The main roles were played by two Polish actresses: Grażyna Szapołowska and Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak. Jankowska-Cieślak's performance in this film brought her award for the best female role na 35. Cannes International Film Festival.

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Polish actresses did not act in this film accidentally. Because of martial law in Poland actors boycotted state television; on the other hand, no Hungarian actress dared to commit to the film by Károly Makk. The international success of Jankowska-Cieślak was inconvenient for the then Polish authorities. They dismissed the director Drama Theatre Gustav Holoubek and they broke up the acting team in which the actress played. For the Polish lesbian community, the film became cult. The award in Cannes could have been an introduction to an international career for Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak. However, the actress did not receive any offers. She thought no producer was interested in her at the time. Many years later it turned out that Polish Film – the only institution in PRL (Polish People's Republic) that was authorized to contact foreign creators with Polish – was even inundated with letters and calls with proposals for the actress. All this information was blocked from above and the proposals were sent to the trash.

Oh. That's why...😑

EGYMASRA NEZVE (1982) dir. Károly Makk In 1958 Hungary, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truths. (link in title)