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The Witness
Le témoin
1969 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Anne Walter
Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Beaux-Arts. Cécile lives with Mrs. Hanka, who reads horoscopes and surrounds herself with natal charts. She says she's known a lot about people for 30 years.
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> What’s interesting about Afonya is its picture of Soviet life at a time when we were told all was grey, unsmiling misery there. Instead it’s a world with palpable similarities to the West: pop music, glamour photos, consumerism and (undeniably) a class-system.
I had a similar feeling watching the 1969 hungarian movie "A tanú" ("The Witness")[0].
While the movie is about communist Hungary, it is interesting how some of the themes are common to satire of any disfunctional organization (incompetents that get promoted because of politicking, clueless people in power, nepotism, unjust punishment etc).
It's a pretty funny movie, and there's a recently restored version so it should be possible to find it if you try a bit.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(1969_Hungarian_film)
It’s not quite the 1970s, but I really enjoy The Witness (A tanú), a Hungarian satire of communism from 1969. I’m pleased to see that it’s available on the site and strongly recommend watching it.