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MaryAnn’s quick take… A quiet horror movie about grief and regret as spiritual possession, about rationalization and denial as immorality. We don’t tell ourselves stories that whisper, as this one does, The Nazis had help. We need to. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film

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A small town in Soviet-occupied Hungary, August 1945. The war is finally over and life is getting back to normal. Or perhaps things will be even better: “a new world” is coming, the townspeople hope. This day is a happy one: Árpád (Bence Tasnádi) and Kisrózsi (Dóra Sztarenki) are getting married, and the groom’s father, István (Péter Rudolf), the town clerk and the most powerful man locally, is expansively generous: the whole town is invited,...

1945 Menemsha Films Director: Ference Török Written by: Ference Török. Gábor T. Szántó adapted from Szántó’s short story “Homecoming” Cast: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki, Ági Szirtes, József Szarvas, Eszter Nagy-Kálózy, Iván Angelus, Marcell Nagy, Miklós B. Szekely, Gyorgy Somhegyi Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 10/10/17 Opens: November 1, 2017 When […]

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“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

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Exclusive: Ferenc Török’s drama explores postwar Hungary before the Communist take-over.

Menemsha has scheduled an October theatrical release for the recent world premiere that played in Panorama.

1945 takes place in the aftermath of the Second World War as two Orthodox Jews with mysterious boxes arrive in a Hungarian village where preparations are underway for a wedding.

The strangers trigger complex feelings among the villagers. Some feel remorse, while others harbour murderous thoughts.

Török wrote the screenplay with Gábor T. Szántó, whose acclaimed short story Homecoming formed the basis for the feature.

“It took 12 years to make this,” Török said. “It’s kind of a western, like High Noon. We wanted to find the link between post-Fascism and Communism. There were two or three years in Hungary when life could have changed. It was an interesting time.

“We shot in black and white but didn’t want black and white thinking: we were looking for shades of grey...