The Exam

About The Exam

Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty.

Péter Bergendy's The Exam is a 2011 history thriller film. It runs 89 minutes and was released in October 2011.

The film is filed under co-workers relationship, christmas eve, informant, and political repression.

János Kulka stars as Pál Markó, Zsolt Nagy as András Jung, Péter Scherer as Emil Kulcsár, and Gabriella Hámori as Éva Gáti. The screenplay is by Norbert Köbli.

Child 44, Fahrenheit 451, and The Shop Around the Corner make useful companions to The Exam, all filed under 1950s and stalinism.