The Inheritance

Year: 1980

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Hungarian

Director: Márta Mészáros

Drama

Set against the rise of Nazism, wealthy but barren Sylvia must secure an heir to claim her father's fortune. Desperate, she covertly pays Irene, a young Jewish woman, to become the mother of a child conceived with Sylvia's husband, entangling both families in a dangerous scheme.

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