Father's Acre
Jan 01 2009
•1h 20m
•Drama
Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son (Tamas Ravasz), now in his late teens, was left to fend for himself and tend the family farm on his own after his dad went away, and the youngster blames his father for his mother's untimely death. The father wants to mend his relationship with his son, but the young man makes no secret of his contempt for his dad, and only grudgingly allows him back on the farm.
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Tamás Ravasz
Son
Andrea Nagy
Son's Aunt / Father's sister in-law
János Derzsi
Father
Lukács Bicskey
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