If the previous films of the Márta Mészáros cycle poke occasional fun at the system, her 1984 semi-autobiographical Diary for My Children is openly critical of the regime. Which is amazing considering that Goulash Communism still had five years to go. Then again, Hungary was relatively liberal by the Eastern Bloc standards. Starring Zsuzsa Czinkóczi as Juli and Jan Nowicki as János and, in flashbacks, Juli’s father.
Another first: with this film, Mészáros became the first woman to win Grand Prix du Festival de Cannes.
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