Friday, November 13: 6:00 pm

The inhabitants of Nagyrev go about their daily lives in this observational portrait of life in rural Hungary. Slowly, they begin to share their memories of the sleepy village’s tainted past and, gradually, the history of the “arsenic murders” comes to light. In 1929, 51 women were held responsible for killing their husbands using sugar cubes soaked in poison. Reticent about this period in their history for many years, the village residents finally open up to provide a complete picture of what really happened and why.

(Screening with Nine Forgotten Songs and Where the Sun Doesn’t Rush in the program Assassins, Widows, and Funeral Directors, Oh My!)