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...Angi Vera is a film of paradoxes. The setting-at least for Americans-is at once exotic and dismal. The heroine, Angi Vera, is a fierce mouse. The style is gentle, almost pensive, yet the tale told is near savage in its implications...
...place is Hungary in 1948, during the Communist takeover. Angi Vera (her surname is placed first, according to the custom of the country), a nurse's aide, publicly denounces inhumane and corrupt treatment-bourgeois backsliding, as it were-in the hospital where she works...
...that is not the way it works out. She turns out to be more grateful and more malleable than she is able to show. At one of those horrendous self-criticism sessions that were a feature of institutional life under Stalinism, little Angi Vera rises to denounce herself for her romantic weakness, which has the effect-another paradox here-of ending her lover's party career and enhancing her own. The film is written and directed with a kind of deadpan subtlety (perhaps the only way it could be done in a country that is, after all, Communist...
Hampered by the defection of alpine star, Kristin Hodgkins, who quit the team after it was forced into Division II for a week, only alpine captain Vera Fajtova, nordic captain Maureen Devlin, and fellow cross-country specialist Missy Holbrook put together memorable races...
...alpine skiers were paced by Kristin Hodgkin's top fifteen placing in the giant slalom but the slalom proved the Crimson's undoing as Hodgkins and Kerry Laing-Ronay toppled and senior captain Vera Fajtova placed 28th. Overall Harvard dropped to ninth place with 74 points in the team standings...