You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget.
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.
Marcell Nagy
György Köves
Béla Dóra
Smoker
Bálint Péntek
Pretty boy
Áron Dimény
Bandi Citrom
Péter Fancsikai
Older Kollmann boy
Zsolt Dér
Rozi
András M. Kecskés
Finn
Dani Szabó
Moskovich
Tibor Mertz
Fodor
Péter Vida
Lénárt
Endre Harkányi
Old Kollmann
Márton Brezina
Younger Kollmann boy
Daniel Craig
US sergeant
József Gyabronka
Balszerencsés
Szabolcs Thuróczy
SS Soldier
Máté Haumann
SS Soldier
Ernő Fekete
Inspector
Piroska Molnár
Terka
Rajhona Ádám
Mr. Steiner
Károly Nemcsák
German officer
Director
Lajos Koltai
Writers
Imre Kertész, Imre Kertész, Imre Kertész
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Hajnal Sellő
Editor
Gyula Pados
Director of Photography
Tibor Lázár
Production Design
Györgyi Szakács
Costume Design
Andres Gomez
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.
