The film was often shown on TV when I was a child, but I was unable to watch it. I was always sick from it (it is very depressing for a child under 10 years old.)
That's how the era really was. And there are still such things today, the life of those brought up in the institution is never easy, even today it may happen that the foster parent actually takes him in as a slave. It is not as common as it was then (so remember, there was no contraception, 5-10 children per household, great love was not the point)
To ayeshakhattak-42704
It's hungarian, use google translate:
cultura.hu/kultura/moricz-es-csibe-tortenete/
On the surface, they functioned as a father-daughter duo, with time he also took the girl's name as Móricz, but in fact Csibe was the writer's last great love.
They also have a child.
"Finally, at the age of almost 60, he met Erzsébet Littkey, Csibe, who was 40 years younger than him. Their first meeting was decisive in itself. Csibe was about to jump off a bridge when Móricz saw him and saved him from suicide. He then took her in, and although his plan for his last years was to live in retirement in Leányfalu, in the end he made more than 1,500 pages of notes about Csibe's miserable life, and in addition to several short stories, he also inspired Árvácska.
On the surface, they functioned as a father-daughter duo, with time he also took the girl's name as Móricz, but in fact Csibe was the writer's last great love."
