When Another Way was presented at PFA in November 1983, audiences hailed it as a landmark film in the career of one of Hungary's best known directors, Károly Makk (Love, Catsplay, A Very Moral Night). Another Way makes a bold connection between two controversial themes--political repression and sexual persecution. 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 difficult years following the 1956 uprising and based on a true story, the film develops in flashback from the point of Eva's death, a self-destructive act of defiance at the heavily patrolled Hungarian-Yugoslavian border. As the film unfolds the romantic, ultimately tragic affair between Eva and a co-worker, Livia, the bourgeois wife of an ex-army officer, in the background loom questions of public and private freedoms, and links between political and social nonconformity. The authorities are as interested in Eva's rebellious sexuality as they are in her political dissidence; a lesbian friend of hers is blackmailed into becoming an informer; and Livia's outraged husband's card-carrying membership in the vice squad adds ironic authority to his violent solution to the love triangle.