Word: kadar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important event in the international film world. Like the festivals at Cannes or Venice, it provided a survey of the most recent masterpieces established directors, such as Godard, Kurosawa, Visconti, Ray, and Dreyer. In addition, the New York showing introduced much fresh talent. Three brilliant Eastern European directors, Jan Kadar and Milos Forman from Czechoslovakia and Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, had their American debut at the Festival...
...Shop on High Street, made last year by Czechoslovakian Co-Directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, took festivalgoers in New York back to the year 1942, when the Jews of a little Slovakian town incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...
...Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary, and at a state-paid salary of $20,000 a year, one of János Kadar's most generously valued national assets...
Retaining his most powerful position as party First Secretary, Kadar, 53, handed the premiership to black-haired, moon-faced ex-Journalist Gyula Kallai, 55, his lifelong friend, sometime jail-mate (between 1951 and 1954, under Stalinist Matyas Rakosi), and longtime foreign affairs adviser, who since 1960 has been Deputy Premier. Kadar also reshuffled his Politburo, replaced creaking party stalwarts with younger men. Janos Brutyo, 54, and Sandor Caspar, 48, two tough administrators, were named respectively president and secretary-general of the trade unions, and Zoltan Komocsin, 42, editor of the Communist organ Nepszabadsag, became party director of foreign affairs...
...changes were not merely for appearances' sake. While Kadar has earned tolerance of his regime by easing travel restrictions, making consumer goods available, and in general promoting gulyds Communism, Hungary's economy is in serious trouble. A decidedly ineffectual administrator, Kadar confessed recently that, because of "unevenesses, difficulties and mistakes," scheduled improvements in farm and industrial efficiency had not materialized. Moreover, agricultural exports to Western Europe, Hungary's traditional market, are steadily being trimmed by the Common Market's rising tariff barriers. Thus, Kallai and Komocsin are plainly better suited than Kadar for such tasks...