Béla Balogh

Karoline and her daughter Marlene do not know that their long-absent son and brother Franz has been killed in the war. Franz's soldier friend Alwin goes to tell them the news, but in the event he can't bring himself to tell them the truth. (imdb)

Love, rivalry and humiliation in a Hungarian village.

The child's must have a mother! - This is the doctor's instructions, and a young widow will do everything so that little girl's mood will change.

A Megfagyott gyermek ( The Frozen Child , Béla Balogh, 1921) provides an unusual perspective on poverty-stricken, working-class life in Budapest through the sufferings endured by two abandoned children.

The film version of Viktor Rákosi's novel. Rákosi began his career as a journalist under the pseudonym Sipulusz, working as an in-house staff member of the Budapest Hírlap. In 1894, he founded and edited the highly successful Márton Kakas, a tabloid newspaper. While Sipulusz was keeping two generations amused with his charming jokes, narratives and wallets, Viktor Rákosi began to write serious works, lofty, patriotic narratives and novels.