Synopsis:

This is an overwhelming epic saga about a Jewish family that gained wealth and reputation in the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ralph Fiennes plays the roles of the family’s patriarchs in three generations of the Sonnenschein/Sors family - grandfather, father and son. The head of the family, a judge and patriot, gets killed during the early days of the anti-Jewish campaign. The oldest son Ignatz is forced to change his last name in order to get a job as a judge, so the family’s new na...

35 mm, b/w and color, 181 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 14.05.2012 AT 19:30

Synopsis:

A boy, Tako, after his father was killed in the WW II, imagines his parent, whom he has never really met. So, the boy convinces himself of his father’s immense courage. In 1956 he falls in love with a Jewish girl, Anna, and learns about the horrors of Holocaust and suffering of the Jewish people. That encourages him to find out the truth about his father: was he really the hero he always imagined him to be.

b/w, 88'

PROJECTION:

Thursday 17.05.2012 AT 19:00

Tuesday 15.05.2012 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

Hungary, WW II. To escape the Nazi exile, János and Kata – married, but not to each other – pretend to be a married couple. Their mutual confidence grows with every day and they become close, which leads them to new temptation…

b/w and color, 105'

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 16.05.2012 AT 21:00

Tuesday 15.05.2012 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

”Yet those who are not kin, they have to live too” It is a centuries-old tradition in Hungary that people don’t vote for, but rather against someone. Instead of the corrupt Makróczy, István Kopjáss becomes the attorney general of Zsarátnok. Kopjáss is a clean character. His pockets are empty, but his head is full of beautiful, world-redeeming dreams. The inhabitants of the city are happy because they have a non-corrupt member of the local government as a mayor, but some of them see him as a...

digital, color, 110 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 17.05.2012 AT 21:00

Wednesday 16.05.2012 AT 19:00