Cathy (1949)
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| In his first feature film, the Communist Party member and future Oscar winner, Ján Kadár, strove to apply the Party directives and the agit-prop inclinations of his previous shorts with some lightness and humor. |
| In the clip, Šimon (Július Pántik), a young floor manager in the hosiery shop of a factory swarming with equally young female workers, is beginning to feel overwhelmed with the allure of real women's and artificial legs all around him, but the screenplay swiftly bumps him back to the constructed realities of early communism with the intercom annoucement that some employees have exceeded their prescribed targets by an improbable 30%, underscored by the slogans in the hallway calling for the advent of new times. |
| The authorities were not amused. They wished for Cathy's overdirected humor to have been substituted with satirical denouncements of the Communists' persecuted opponents. |
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