The Exam(A vizsga)
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Hungary · 2011
Rated R · 1h 29m
Director Péter Bergendy
Starring János Kulka, Zsolt Nagy, Péter Scherer, Gabriella Hámori
Genre Drama, History, Thriller
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Welcome to Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, shaken and insecure by the defeated revolution of 1956 and prodded by a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security personnel must take an exam to challenge and verify their loyalty. But to be effective in this shadowy world of suspicion and lies, of secrets within secrets, where nothing and no one can be trusted, the subjects must be unaware they are being tested. Focused on the secret machinations of a totalitarian state’s paranoid need for absolute control, The Exam is a fascinating, Kafka-esque portrait of an era gone by – but it’s a mindset still very much active today.
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