SWEET EMMA, DEAR BöBE
Symposium
Emma and Böbe, two countrygirls, have been teaching Russian at a primary school in Budapest. After the end of socialism, they have to change the classes over to English as quick as they can. Because they cannot afford their own apartments, they share a room in a residence for teachers. To improve their economic situation, Emma works as a cleaning-woman; Böbe fishes for foreigners in hotel-bars, hoping they will buy her a dinner. Emma and Böbe fi nd themselves in a fight for their existence. Unwilling to lose the social status they have achieved during the old regime, they fight in order not to become what they used to be: country-girls.
Édes Emma, drága Böbe / Süße Emma, liebe Böbe
HUN 1991 / 90 min
Director: István Szabó
- Screenplay: István Szabó
- Cinematographer: Lajos Koltai
- Editor: Eszter Kovács
- Music: Tibor Bornai,Mihály Mórics,Ferenc Nagy,Beatrice,Robert Schumann
- Cast: Johanna ter Steege,Erikó Bőrcsők,Péter Andorai,Éva Kerekes,Erzi Pásztor,Hédi Temessy
- Producer: Lajos Ovári,Gabriella Grósz
- Production Company: Objektiv Filmstudio - Budapest
Emma and Böbe, two countrygirls, have been teaching Russian at a primary school in Budapest. After the end of socialism, they have to change the classes over to English as quick as they can. Because they cannot afford their own apartments, they share a room in a residence for teachers. To improve their economic situation, Emma works as a cleaning-woman; Böbe fishes for foreigners in hotel-bars, hoping they will buy her a dinner. Emma and Böbe fi nd themselves in a fight for their existence. Unwilling to lose the social status they have achieved during the old regime, they fight in order not to become what they used to be: country-girls.
- Screenplay: István Szabó
- Cinematographer: Lajos Koltai
- Editor: Eszter Kovács
- Music: Tibor Bornai,Mihály Mórics,Ferenc Nagy,Beatrice,Robert Schumann
- Cast: Johanna ter Steege,Erikó Bőrcsők,Péter Andorai,Éva Kerekes,Erzi Pásztor,Hédi Temessy
- Producer: Lajos Ovári,Gabriella Grósz
- Production Company: Objektiv Filmstudio - Budapest