János Horkay

Édes Anna is a 1958 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri, based on Dezső Kosztolányi's 1926 novel of the same name. The film stars Mari Törőcsik as Anna, a docile young servant girl whose systematic exploitation by a bourgeois Budapest family during the political upheaval following the collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 culminates in a violent act of desperation. The screenplay was co-written by Fábri and Péter Bacsó. Entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, the film drew nearly two million viewers in Hungarian cinemas and is considered one of the classics of Hungarian film history. The film is sometimes referred to in English as Sweet Anna, Sweet Anne or Sweet Ann.