Károly Makk has long been recognized as one of Hungary's major directors; his 1970 film Love was widely shown in this country. A Very Moral Night is a spirited turn-of-the-century tale of a poor medical student lodging cheaply and happily in a bordello. When his widowed mother makes a surprise visit, the madam and the girls set about converting the place into a respectable boarding house. The film “is given a certain de Maupassant flavor by Makk who concentrates mainly on re-creating, in fastidious detail, the physical look and the feel of the bordello, with its complement of striving, yearning girls and bellicose customers” (National Film Theatre, London). “A Very Moral Night thrives on...double standard role playing: laughs mingle with tears, propriety with a lust for life, the human with the moral.... Károly Makk has a way with actors and situations that requires few if any words.... (When the film) takes off, it belongs to the madam (Iren Psota) and the mother (Margit Makay), two veteran legit-and-film thesps who know a ripe role when they see one....” (Variety)