Citizen, The

[Played Aug. 13 via Eventbrite and available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.] Superb acting dominates Roland Vranik's poignant, captivating, award-winning, down-to-earth, heartbreaking, unpredictable, 109-minute, 2016 film in which the life of a Black tenacious, kindhearted, widowed, 56-year-old security guard (Marcelo Cake-Baly), who works for a supportive boss (Tünde Szalontay) at a grocery store in Budapest, gets increasingly complicated when he allows a pregnant Iranian refugee (Arghavan Shekari) to hide from the authorities in his apartment after escaping from a camp and then falls in love with an engaging history teacher (Ágnes Máhr), who has a husband (Péter Barbinek) and two adult sons (Máté Haumann and Péter Sándor), while she coaches him on Hungarian history and the constitution so he can pass an exam to become a Hungarian citizen.
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