• Source: The Angel Makers

The Angel Makers is a 2007 novel written by British author Jessica Gregson based on the true story of The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, two Hungarian women who sold arsenic to unhappily married women to kill their husbands. It was published by PaperBooks.
Gregson wrote The Angel Makers while working for the Home Office. While reading an encyclopedia on serial killers, Gregson saw an entry for the story of a group of women in Hungary who turned on their men during World War I.




Plot summary


During World War I, the men of a Hungarian village leave to fight. In their absence, the women form powerful bonds. Their village is made into a camp for Italian prisoners of war and some women fall for these soldiers. When their men return and begin to mistreat them, the women become murderous in their fight to keep their freedom.




References

• Source: The Angelmakers

The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary, the debut film of filmmaker Astrid Bussink, which provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, which brought worldwide attention to the area in 1929. The documentary won the First Appearance competition at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, as well as several other awards.
The film is shot on location in the rural Hungarian village of Nagyrév, alternating between portraits of the surrounding landscape and first-hand narrations by the elderly inhabitants.
Some women poisoned unwanted husbands based on their oppression, drunkenness or laziness, some because the wives had taken lovers, some because the husbands had returned home disabled from World War I. Unwanted babies were also poisoned.
A web of stories unfolds through the characters' memories which recapture old but ever-lasting tales of life, death and the struggle between the two sexes. One of them is the midwife's story as well as one of the narrators' revelation that the 'flypaper' murders were a widespread practice not only in the particular area but on a national level. The film tries to give some insight in the domestic battles that the women of the village have to fight.




References






External links


The Angelmakers at IMDb
Documentary web site
Adams, Kathryn (2007). "The Angelmakers (review)". Leonardo. 40 (5): 504–505. doi:10.1162/leon.2007.40.5.504b. Project MUSE 221880.
Article on the murders
Another article on the murders (in Hungarian)
"TWO NAGYREV BABIES POISONED BY ARSENIC; Exhumation Gives New Turn to Series of Murders in Hungarian District". The New York Times. 13 September 1929.
"Hungary Opens Grim Trials of Fifty Women For Poisoning Husbands and Other Relatives". The New York Times. 14 December 1929.
MacCormac, John (16 March 1930). "MURDER BY WHOLESALE: A TALE FROM HUNGARY; HUNGARY'S BORGIAS AT THE BAR". The New York Times.

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