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1945

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Original title

1945

Year

2017

Running time

91 min.

Country

Hungary

Director

Ferenc Török

Screenwriter

Gábor T. Szántó, Ferenc Török

Cast

Music

Tibor Szemzö

Cinematography

Elemér Ragályi (B&W)

Producer

Katapult Film

Genre

Drama | II World War. Holocaust

Synopsis

Adapted by Török and Gábor T. Szántó from the short story 'Homecoming' (written by the latter), the story kicks off in the summer of 1945, as the preparations are being made for a wedding in a Hungarian village. Arpad, the son of the influential town clerk, Istvan Szentes, is to marry Kisrozsi, the former fiancée of his friend, Jancsi. Everyone believed that Jancsi had been killed on the frontline, but he has finally returned home as a communist tasked with redistributing lands. However, Istvan, who had been a “substitute father” to half-orphan Jancsi, hopes that the previous status quo in the village can be maintained. It has to be said that in addition to helping Arpad to find a suitable wife, he has also acquired the drugstore of his Jewish friend, Pollak, who had already been denounced and taken away before the deportations began. Many of the locals are also indebted to Istvan because he was the one who distributed the confiscated possessions of the deported Jews amongst them. Amidst the wedding preparations, two Orthodox Jews arrive at the village train station with mysterious boxes. Their coming upsets the order of things, with some people fearing that they will have to give back their "ill-gotten gains" and others worrying that more survivors may come. In some of them, murderous thoughts arise, but others are filled with remorse.

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1945

2017

Ferenc Török

6.7

(1,135)