Not for the faint-hearted: Nobody's Daughter (Árvácska, 1976) is one of the most depressing movies ever made in cinema history, based on a true story. It shows with precise realism the rural and backwards life of Hungarian peasants post WW-1 living in ignorance, fear, and destitution. The fascist government at that time started giving out small benefits to people who would adopt orphaned children, so the poor peasants start flocking to orphanages. They are not motivated to raise the kids, they want cheap labor and the benefits. They don't school the kids, they don't clothe or feed them properly.
Csöre, the seven-year-old orphan, is maltreated by her poor peasant foster-parents. They punish her severely for every tiny mistake she makes. Csöre runs away and another rich peasant family adopts her, nevertheless she is abused more than ever before.
Contains traumatizing scenes, brutal realism. (Movie basically starts with the kid being raped).
Still, it is one of the great unjustly forgotten movies of the 20th century, not reaching foreign popularity for the obvious reason for not being too… accessible to the general public. Highly recommended to people with childhood traumas and shitty parents.
rutracker has a downloadable version of it
ENG sub: opensubtitles.org
FR sub: opensubtitles.org
CZ sub: opensubtitles.org
audio: HUN original, RUS dub
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