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The Door (2012)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
István Szabó
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    Emerenc Szeredás Helen Mirren
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    Magda Martina Gedeck
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    Tibor Károly Eperjes
  • Profile picture of Péter Andorai
    Mr. Brodarics Péter Andorai
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    Sutu Enikő Börcsök
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    The Lt. Colonel Gábor Koncz
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    Handyman Lajos Kovács
  • Profile picture of Erika Marozsán
    Évike Grossmann Erika Marozsán

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  • struggling writer
  • secretiveness
  • communist era
  • elderly woman
  • private life