Karoly Makk (Love, Catsplay, A Very Moral Night) is, with Istvan Szabo, probably the best known Hungarian director outside his own country. Makk makes a bold connection between two controversial themes-- political repression and sexual persecution--in his newest film, Another Way, which was featured at the 1982 New York, Cannes and Montreal Film Festivals. Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak won the Cannes Festival prize for best actress for her portrayal of Eva, an outspoken journalist who is also a lesbian. Set in the first difficult years following the 1956 uprising, and based on a true story, the film develops in flashback from the point of Eva's death at the heavily patrolled Hungarian-Yugoslavian border, to a portrait of the tragic lesbian love affair that led her to a self-destructive act of defiance. The passionately uncompromising journalist, who lives in a claustrophobic walk-up, falls in love with a co-worker, Livia, living in bourgeois comfort and conformity as the wife of an ex-army officer. The focus of the film turns to the romantic unfolding of the two women's relationship, but in the background questions of public and private freedom, and the links between political and social nonconformity, remain obvious: the authorities are as interested in Eva's rebellious sexuality as they are in her political dissidence; a lesbian friend of hers has been blackmailed into becoming an informer; and Livia's outraged husband is a card-carrying member of the vice squad, which adds ironic authority to the violent solution he chooses to the love triangle. Critic Martyn Auty writes for Monthly Film Bulletin: “Another Way is arguably the most courageous film to have come out of Eastern Europe since the Solidarity phase of Polish cinema.”