1945 will screen at Plaza Frontenac Cinema (Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Rd, Frontenac, Mo 63131) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Showings are Sunday, Nov. 5 at 5pm (purchase tickets Here) and Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 4:30pm (purchase tickets Here).
1945 is a haunting Hungarian drama from director Ferenc Torok that takes place in a small Hungarian village shortly after the end of World War II. It is a tale of guilt and greed, revealing what was done to the Jewish population by ordinary citizens during the war.
The arrival of two men dressed in black, who appear to be Jewish, grips this small rural town with fear and guilt. The Town Clerk, Istvan Szentes (Peter Rudolf), a prosperous politician who seems more like the town’s mayor, is preparing for his son Arpad’s (Bence Tasnadi) wedding that afternoon. But this festive occasion is disrupted when he gets...
1945 is a haunting Hungarian drama from director Ferenc Torok that takes place in a small Hungarian village shortly after the end of World War II. It is a tale of guilt and greed, revealing what was done to the Jewish population by ordinary citizens during the war.
The arrival of two men dressed in black, who appear to be Jewish, grips this small rural town with fear and guilt. The Town Clerk, Istvan Szentes (Peter Rudolf), a prosperous politician who seems more like the town’s mayor, is preparing for his son Arpad’s (Bence Tasnadi) wedding that afternoon. But this festive occasion is disrupted when he gets...
- 11/5/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Despite being almost two decades into his film career, Hungarian filmmaker Ferenc Torok is a relatively unknown entity here in the Us. The director’s sixth feature film, 1945 is now in theaters in New York City, and while it may not make many waves here during its theatrical engagement, it’s certainly one of the back end of 2017’s great surprises.
1945 has a relatively simplistic elevator pitch, given the depths that it ultimately reaches. Set one summer day during that fateful year, two Orthodox Jewish men arrive in a small Hungarian village just as the town is prepping for a rather important wedding. Finding the village less than welcoming, the two men deal with a town on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the closing moments of World War II. As the son of a village notary, Arpad (Bence Tasnadi), readies to marry a beautiful young peasant woman named...
1945 has a relatively simplistic elevator pitch, given the depths that it ultimately reaches. Set one summer day during that fateful year, two Orthodox Jewish men arrive in a small Hungarian village just as the town is prepping for a rather important wedding. Finding the village less than welcoming, the two men deal with a town on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the closing moments of World War II. As the son of a village notary, Arpad (Bence Tasnadi), readies to marry a beautiful young peasant woman named...
- 11/3/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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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- 10/26/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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