By making her film Pócspetri, Judit Ember gave the chance of appeal to a branded village held guilty for half a century. The film was not premiered before 1989. In the bonus features she talks about the making of the film and about the background of the events.

On 3 June 1948, at a rally in protest against the nationalisation of the schools, a policeman was murdered in Pócspetri. The summary court turned the event into a show trial. Several people were convicted, and the notary was innocently sentenced to death and executed. While reconstructing the events, Judit Ember resolved the traumata living on in the people’s minds, integrating them into collective memory.

Produced by Balázs Béla Stúdió, Directed by Judit Ember, Director of Photography Lóránd Mertz, Sound by Gyula Traub, Edited by Ágnes Kulics, Photo Gábor Hegyi, Movie Poster Design by György Kemény

Language: Hungarian
Audio: 2.0
Colour: Black and White
Subtitles: English
Format: 1:1.33
Running Time 190'
Bonus Feature: Judit Ember on Pócspetri

Published and distributed by Hungarian National Film Fund – Film Archive, 2017