The Upthrown Stone
1969 · 84 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 245 VOTES · DIR. Sándor Sára
Overview
An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
Dialogue Timeline — 670 lines
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00:00:26 They say only those will go far in the future
00:02:56 I was wounded by the Whites at Tzaritzin.
00:06:31 He's been taken away.
00:10:04 Give up your dreams.
00:12:33 I was sent from Budapest.
00:14:11 My wife.
00:19:26 that whatever the sentence will be
00:21:51 He stopped a train for 2 minutes.
00:24:34 The Hungarian delegation of peasants returned from the Soviet Union.
00:27:13 that comrade llias Christos beat him.
00:29:00 This is no life, believe me.
00:32:30 Young man
00:34:10 But throw the clock at their heads.
00:40:47 Sandor Farago.
00:46:08 Good morning.
00:48:22 You took our men.
00:50:57 I know.
00:57:39 We're full of bourgeois influence.
01:00:07 This way, sir. There's a shortcut.
01:03:17 Just potatoes.
01:05:58 - No? - Yes.
01:07:39 I mean was there something between you?
01:09:41 you'll be a giant; close your eyes - and go to sleep now, little Blaise.
01:21:24 Make history answer to man.