Aurora Boreali

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Márta Mészáros
  • Hungary 2017
  • 104 minutes
  • Hungarian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Mária, an elderly woman living in Hungary, receives an unexpected letter in the mail. She collapses and falls into a coma. Her daughter Olga, a successful attorney living in Vienna, returns home to visit and comes across a deliberately withheld secret. The investigation takes Olga back to the war-torn Europe of the 1950s.

The new film from celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros is a family drama about identity, open wounds and the healing powers of the truth.

Filmography: The Seventh Room (1996), Diary for My Lovers (1987), Diary for My Children (1984), Adoption (1975), The Girl (1968).


  • Director Márta Mészáros
  • Production István Major
  • Script Éva Pataki, Zoltán Jancsó
  • Cinematography Piotr Sobocinski Jr
  • Editing Annamária Szántó
  • Actors Mari Törőcsik, Franciska Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, József Wunderlich, Eva Prosek
  • Source Magyar Filmunió, Budapest