![]() ![]() When Katalin starts giving Péter voice lessons, they take an intrepid step out of hiding by making music together. The two have something in common besides fear: they are singers whose very natures make the silence unbearable. Both Péter and Katalin keep their heads down and their mouths clamped shut, because silence is the only safety they know. Moving to Budapest for a manual labor job, Péter meets Katalin Varga, an unwed mother whose baby's father has vanished, most likely at the hands of the secret police. In this milieu of dread, the best land of Péter Benedek's peasant family is seized and his life upended. ![]() After a lost war and a brutal transition to communism, the people live under constant threat of blacklisting, property confiscation, arrest, imprisonment, and worse. In 1951, a grim hush has settled over Hungary. ![]()
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