Difficult to find these days, but an award-winner in its time. I first saw MEMORIES OF A RIVER from mid-film on TV & found its court drama absorbing enough to want to see the whole film from the beginning. When I did, I found the first half rather in need of more editing, but it didn't diminish my enjoyment of the second half.
It's not surprising that the one reviewer here from Hungary itself would find the film wanting for balance; I have yet to see a Jewish-life-in-middle-Europe film that pleased the non-Jewish peoples of those areas -- just ask Poles about WW2 & Auschwitz. If the details are biased (or even wrong) the film still convincingly creates a feeling of being tried as an outsider in a small village.
It's not surprising that the one reviewer here from Hungary itself would find the film wanting for balance; I have yet to see a Jewish-life-in-middle-Europe film that pleased the non-Jewish peoples of those areas -- just ask Poles about WW2 & Auschwitz. If the details are biased (or even wrong) the film still convincingly creates a feeling of being tried as an outsider in a small village.