The Door
There are those who sweep and those who pay others to sweep.
Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.
- Year: 2012
- Country: Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Metrol Technology, Film-Art Kft., Intuit Pictures, Bankside Films, Head Gear Films, ARD Degeto
- Keyword: budapest, hungary, cat, married couple, author, maid, invisible, dog, housekeeper, rainstorm, stubbornness, mysterious, odd, struggling writer, secretiveness, communist era, elderly woman, private life
- Director: István Szabó
- Cast: Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes, Péter Andorai, Enikő Börcsök, Gábor Koncz