Diary for My Children

Amid the political turmoil of 1940s Hungary, teenage girl Juli (Zsuzsa Czinkoczi) is sent to live with her Stalinist aunt, Magda (Anna Polony). Orphaned when her father became a casualty of the Stalinist purges, Juli, as she awakens to her own political consciousness, begins to rebel against Magda's stern iron rule. Juli and Magda's antagonistic relationship comes to a head as events in Hungary lead up to the failed 1956 uprising against the Soviets. …