Adoption (1975 Berlin Golden Bear Winner)

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1975 features the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption. Written and directed by Márta Mészáros and starring Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh and László Szabó, Adoption was the first movie by a female filmmaker to ever win the Golden Bear.The contemporary review quoted in this episode comes from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/02/archives/film-a-widow-adoptshungarian-work-opens-modern-art-series.html).Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen’s Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1975 installment, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.