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The House Under the Rocks (Ház a sziklák alatt)

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Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.

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Director
Károly Makk
Date Made
1959
Country
Hungary
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