Akik maradtak

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

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.

I found this to be a superb movie, in content, script, acting, music, so many ways. Most of all it simply grabbed me by the heart.

The two main characters Klara and Aldo are the only surviving members of their respective families not long after WW II and living in Hungary. Where the communists had taken over.

She is 16 and very out of sorts which is understandable. She has no one and thinks she might be somehow reunited with her parents. He is 45 and alone as his wife and two sons didn't survive and he somehow survived a concentration camp alone.

Some may say the story is unrealistic, but to me that really didn't matter. With so many movies about love lost due to war, it is heartwarming to see a movie about two lost souls finding comfort with each other, albeit in an awkward situation. Maybe that couldn't have happened at that place and that time, but it doesn't matter as this is a movie and everything felt very real to me.

Any shortcomings pointed out by others can be overcome with the superb acting of the main characters as played by Abigel Szoke and Karoly Hajduk. I could especially relate to her portayal of Klara as she would cling to him, having been left with an aunt and feeling lost and forgotten.

It was in no way easy for them to regain any kind of love in their life after they had lost their entire families. But how nice to watch a film about new kinds of love forming slowly over time, even if in a difficult post-war country to be in.

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.

A wellplayed touching film. Good acting, Good subject, Good shooting. Recommended.