It’s November 1956, and Russian tanks have just invaded Budapest, crushing the revolution. A young couple, István (Gergely Váradi) and Márta (Varga-Járó Sára), rushes for the last train that can get them out of the country. When aboard, they are approached by a mysterious fedora-wearing man (Pál Mácsai), who encourages Márta, a talented chess player carrying a set, to play against him. In another, parallel storyline, a priest (Károly Hajduk) is captured and imprisoned by the secret police. As they subject him to psychological torments in hopes he will give up the location of an unknown Vatican treasure, he finds salvation in vigorously studying a chess textbook. These two stories, tied by chess and people who desperately strive for freedom, will inevitably cross aboard the...
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- 4/15/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Hungary has chosen Barnabás Tóth’s “Those Who Remained,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, as its official entry in the Oscars’ International Feature Film category. Variety’s reviewer described the drama as “achingly tender” and “an exquisite, poignantly performed tale.” Menemsha Films will release the film in North America.
Set in Budapest after the end of World War II, the film centers on the relationship between two Hungarians struggling to cope with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Aladár (Károly Hajduk) is a “gentle but haunted” middle-aged doctor, whose wife and sons died in the concentration camps; Klára (Abigél Szőke) – in furious denial over the loss of her parents – is a 16-year-old “force of nature,” who “storms her way into his life,” Variety film critic Alissa Simon writes in her review.
“[The film] taps into a deep well of honestly earned emotion as it tells the story of two traumatized survivors...
Set in Budapest after the end of World War II, the film centers on the relationship between two Hungarians struggling to cope with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Aladár (Károly Hajduk) is a “gentle but haunted” middle-aged doctor, whose wife and sons died in the concentration camps; Klára (Abigél Szőke) – in furious denial over the loss of her parents – is a 16-year-old “force of nature,” who “storms her way into his life,” Variety film critic Alissa Simon writes in her review.
“[The film] taps into a deep well of honestly earned emotion as it tells the story of two traumatized survivors...
- 9/3/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Many films deal with the suffering of the Holocaust years, but far fewer focus on those who managed to return from the camps. The achingly tender Hungarian drama “Those Who Remained” fills that gap. Perceptively directed by Barnabás Tóth, . Set in the period between 1948 and ’53, the period drama also takes on the purges of Hungarian politician Mátyás Rákosi’s Communist regime. Following its world premiere in Telluride, this exquisite, poignantly performed tale will be released in North American by Menemsha Films.
After the war, the gentle but haunted Dr. Aládar “Aldó” Kőrner (Károly Hajduk), 42, returns to his ob-gyn hospital practice. His wife and two small boys perished in the camps, and he lives alone, with only his medical journals for company, until Klára (Abigél Szőke), a 16-year-old force of nature, storms her way into his life.
We first meet Klára, nicknamed Sunny, in Aldó’s clinic and she’s definitely not radiating good humor.
After the war, the gentle but haunted Dr. Aládar “Aldó” Kőrner (Károly Hajduk), 42, returns to his ob-gyn hospital practice. His wife and two small boys perished in the camps, and he lives alone, with only his medical journals for company, until Klára (Abigél Szőke), a 16-year-old force of nature, storms her way into his life.
We first meet Klára, nicknamed Sunny, in Aldó’s clinic and she’s definitely not radiating good humor.
- 8/31/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
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