In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter
★ 10 · 1985 · 15m · Documentary · Drama
The footage was shot in the writer's room a few days after his death. Everything in the room was untouched. The poet György Petri reads from one of Péter Hajnóczy's works, Miss Embolia. A sacred image of the Eastern European "beaten generation".
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