Oh, Bloody Life

The year is 1951 and the place is Hungary. Lucy Sziráky is an operetta actress. She is young and ambitious. Her career is just taking off. Then a decision cuts across her life. She is deported. The reason is her former husband’s title of count. She has to leave the capital. Her assigned residence is a small village in Békés county. She falls from the stage into village life. Everything there is foreign to her. The film tells this as a comedy. A heavy period sits behind it. Hungary under Stalin is the ground the story stands on. It opened on 16 February 1984. Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Bezerédy and András Kern appear in the hundred and eight minute film, a Hungarian production Péter Bacsó finished in 1984.