On a sweltering August day in 1945, while villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk’s son, two Orthodox Jews arrive at the train station with mysterious boxes. The villagers fear the men may be survivors from the concentration camps who will demand their unjustly acquired property back... Touching upon a sensitive and not sufficiently discussed moment of European history, the director ventures to open Pandora’s box and capture in this black-and-white portrait of a waste land all the gray areas trespassed by humans in times of peace.
1945
1945
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Ferenc Török
- Script: Gábor T. Szántó & Ferenc Török
- Cinematography: Elemér Ragályi
- Editing: Béla Barsi
- Sound: Tamás Zányi
- Music: Tibor Szemző
- Actors: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel
- Production: Katapult Film
- Producers: Iván Angelusz, Péter Reich, Ferenc Török
- Art Direction: László Rajk
- Costumes: Sosa Juristovszky
- Make Up: Anna Tesner
- Format: DCP
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: Hungary
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 91΄
- Contact: HNFF World Sales
- Awards/Distinctions: Audience Award – 2017 Miami Jewish Film Festival, USA Audience Award – 2017 Budapest Titanic IFF, Hungary
Ferenc Török
Ferenc Török was born in 1971 in Budapest. He was honoured with the Pro Cultura Urbis Award by the City of Budapest in 2005 and the Balázs Béla Award, a state recognition for outstanding achievement in filmmaking, in 2008. He is a member of the European Film Academy since 2007.
Filmography
2001 Moszkva tér | Moscow Square
2004 Szezon | Eastern Sugar
2007 Overnight
2014 No Man’s Island
2017 1945
