Szépleányok

Pretty Girls
Schönheiten
1986
Szépleányok (Schönheiten)

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Semi-documentary film about the first beauty contest in socialist Hungary, which was organised in Budapest in 1985 based on the Western model. With surprisingly clear criticism and full of fury, the film denounces the dubious manipulations and greed for profit of the organisers, but above all the unscrupulous trivialisation of the suicide of the 17-year-old winner, a schoolgirl.