Film

The Upthrown Stone

1969 · 1h 24m · Drama

IMDb

6.9

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.

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

Sándor Kőmíves

Uncle Géza

Ferenc Némethy

Gönczi

János Görbe

farmer

• Sára SándorDirector · Writer · Director of Photography
• Sándor CsóoriWriter
• Ferenc KósaWriter
• András SzőllősyOriginal Music Composer
• Mihály MorellEditor

Release date

April 17, 1969

Status

Released

Original language

Hungarian

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Drama