In Angi Vera, Pál Gábor places a young woman's story in a complex historical and political context with a grace and inevitability that seems particular to the Eastern European cinema. In the early days of post-war Hungarian socialism (Autumn, 1948), Vera, an enthusiastic but uneducated Party member, attracts the attention of officials when she naively speaks out at a Party meeting against certain incidents in the hospital where she is a nursing assistant. Chosen to be sent to a Party school for a political education and managerial training, she falls under the influence of a powerful activist, who offers to “direct” her and use her influence on Vera's behalf; and of her seminar leader, a married man with whom she falls in love. The contradictions Vera confronts within herself reflect the contradictions of her society, and Pál Gábor offers an intentionally disturbing, somewhat ambiguous resolution not flattering to his heroine. He has commented, “It was the time of Stalin, the era of the cult of personality. I didn't want to deal with politics per se, but with what politics did to people. The theme is the responsibility of the individual....” (quoted in Film Folio, June 1980)