
A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
Official trailer from TMDB

György Köves

Smoker
Pretty boy

Bandi Citrom

Older Kollmann boy

Rozi
Finn

Moskovich
Fodor

Lénárt

Old Kollmann
Younger Kollmann boy
Lajos Koltai
Imre Kertész, Imre Kertész
Péter Barbalics, András Hámori, Ildikó Kemény, Jonathan Olsberg, Robert Buckler



10/12/2013
An interesting movie about the personal experience of a Hungarian Jew during the Holocaust. Still, you cannot really empathize with the weird apathetic personality of the main character until the last reflections of the movie.
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