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MaryAnn’s quick take… A quiet horror movie about grief and regret as spiritual possession, about rationalization and denial as immorality. We don’t tell ourselves stories that whisper, as this one does, The Nazis had help. We need to. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film

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A small town in Soviet-occupied Hungary, August 1945. The war is finally over and life is getting back to normal. Or perhaps things will be even better: “a new world” is coming, the townspeople hope. This day is a happy one: Árpád (Bence Tasnádi) and Kisrózsi (Dóra Sztarenki) are getting married, and the groom’s father, István (Péter Rudolf), the town clerk and the most powerful man locally, is expansively generous: the whole town is invited,...

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...

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...