Karussell

It is a wonderful film beautifully photographed throughout, at the open credits is a merry-go-round, suggestion of being at a circus but we would have thought it at a fairground and it is mesmerising. The lovely Mari Torocsik stars in a dazzling debut performance and although she seems in love with a farm worker but her father is adamant for her to marry with a wealthy man and it will mean that he will also be better off with 'the Law of the Land'. The story goes much as we imagine but then towards the end it is rather surprising. After the merry-go-round there is another one but there are also some amazing long incredible dancing pieces again with Mari. She was still a student and given the star role in this as she was only 20 and then in 1957 she went to work at the National Theatre in London. She worked at first in the theatre in UK and then TV and film in Hungary, when she was almost always there and made more than 170. I have only seen one of her other films and that was Miklos Jansco's, Silence and Cry (1968) which was beautiful but at the same time rather difficult to understand.