Maria Varga Movies

Abused by her parents and dejected by her bleak existence in an impoverished village of the Zsil River Valley, a twelve year-old girl finds just how much worse things can get after determining that she would be better off on her own. Iska (Maria Varga) is a young girl who earns money for her family by scavenging for metal, coal, and other various valuables in the rubble surrounding her village. When Iska returns home empty-handed one day after unwisely bargaining with a buyer, her parents punish her with a sound thrashing. Though she hesitates at the thought of leaving her sick sister Rozsika (Rozsika Varga) behind, Iska furtively slips out of the family home to seek out a better life elsewhere. A short stay in the well-intended but woefully inadequate orphanage system does little to ease the frightened child's fears for the future, and though things begin to look up when Iska plans a seaside escape with friendly boy Marian (Marion Rusache) things soon take a turn for the worse when Iska is kidnapped by deviants who run a child prostitution ring. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Karoly (Jerzy Trela) is a former POW who works in a slaughterhouse in this somber social drama. His wife left him during the counterrevolution of 1956, and Karoly finds comfort in the arms of fellow worker Anna (Lili Monori), but he takes up with Maria (Maria Varga) after he discovers Anna is involved with another man. Maria reveals she has been forced into a relationship with a Party official and former secret policeman. Karoly and Maria run off for a romantic few days in the country before she is captured by the goon squad. Karoly is beaten severely but vows to find his beloved Maria. He runs into continual dead ends in the search and is again savagely beaten. Maria is forced to marry the Party official and years later finds Karoly living in the gutter and unable to speak. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi