Film
1945
- Director
- Ferenc Török
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 91 mins
Just as the Oscar-winning Son of Saul focused on Jewish death camp inmates who did the Nazis’ dirty work for them, so Ferenc Török‘s acclaimed post-WWII drama explores another aspect of Hungary’s, ahem, problematic relationship with the Holocaust.
On a warm summer’s day in 1945, a pair of Orthodox Jews arrive in a small Hungarian village, provoking guilt, fear and paranoia among the locals. The suspicion is that they might be relatives of deported local Jews who’ve come to reclaim their families’ illegally snaffled property. Shot in monochrome in the style of a High Noon-style western, it’s a meticulously crafted and provocative contribution to an over-stuffed genre.
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