Akik maradtak

This is a story of two survivors of the Holocaust: a middle aged doctor, Aladar, and a 16-year-old girl, Klara, who were total strangers to each other. While losing their loved ones and still suffering, they meet and start a father-daughter like relationship which some see as peculiar. But this relationship soon becomes special, and eventually heals their scars within. Although this movie is about people's recovery from the traumatic experiences of war, I saw it as a platonic love story of two lost souls. Sadness is always in Aladar's eyes and Klara often wakes up screaming from a nightmare. The inner scars of the two are so deep that they can't even express their grief properly. So seeing them cuddling close together, gradually restoring their lives was heart-warming to see. A very subtle yet very moving film.

Deeply touched me. I cant sleep this night. This man and young women were so good, maybe the best acting in hungarian movie ever. The story is very sad, but full with real emotions, real life.

Pretty unremarkable movie. Everything is so plain, the story is so simple and pointless, characters boring... They made more beautiful movies in Grujoland before Grujo went there (Son of Saul, On Body and Soul...). :D

Just back from seeing this extraordinary movie at the Wilmette Theater: 'Those Who Remained'.

Set in 1948 Budapest. Everyone still stunned by the war and its aftermath.

A kind doctor befriends a 14 year old girl. Both camp survivors. They are those who were left at war's end. They are surrounded by ghosts. The little girl refuses to accept death. They aren't 'were' they 'are'. Lives that go on with holes as large as elephants. Black holes that suck all of life down into nothingness. Except for the human spirit in everyone. That life smashed, mutilated, damaged, despairing goes on. Love can be felt and to be loved regained. So powerful, so honest and true.

Makes you think...how did those who lived...live?

Brilliant cast. Everyone a living individual. The doctor slowly comes into the light. The girl, angry, furious, refusing to accept what happened to her...saved by human touch. Saved by experiencing, well, fun.

Sad beyond belief in parts, but wonderful in most others.

I gave the movie 6/10 for the work by the wonderful actors. But this movie verges on the ridiculous. It is an excellent theme-traumatized victims of the Holocaust forming a new family to help each other heal-but it is wildly inaccurate about history.

At the end of WWII, Budapest was a bombed-out wreck. Yet everywhere here, it is in fine shape, and everyone has new clothes and shiny apartments. One character talks about the wedding they were planning for the April, 1945... which was during the siege of Budapest when everyone was starving!

Then there are the unbelievable ways the doctor acts with the girl right from the start of the relationship. Propriety is a much bigger issue in Central Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. The arrangement they made would have been impossible. Only the teachers at the school seem to care!

Multiple threats in the movie just fade away to nothing as if the screenwriters forgot.

Considering the wonderful cast and potential, this movie is terribly frustrating.