The Upthrown Stone

The Upthrown Stone (1969)

Drama

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.

Director: Sára Sándor

Casts

	Lajos Balázsovits as Pásztor Balázs
	Nadesda Kazassian as Irini, Iliasz felesége
	Todor Todorov as Iliasz
	László Bánhidy as János bácsi
	István Iglódi as Halmos Jancsi
	Tibor Molnár as Kerék András
	Katalin Berek as Balázs anyja
	József Madaras as
	János Pásztor as father of Balázs
	Kati Berek as mother of Balázs
	József Bihari as grandfather of Balázs
	Lajos Őze as college teacher
	Sándor Kőmíves as Uncle Géza
	Ferenc Némethy as Gönczi
	János Görbe as farmer

Crew