Aron Dimeny Movies
- 2006
Writer/director Andor Szilagy weaves this politically charged tale of a charismatic teen whose youthful rebellion ultimately transforms him into a national icon. Inspired by the 1956 rebellion against the Soviet-sponsored dictatorship in his native Hungary and enraged at the subsequent wave of terror that engulfed Budapest, sixteen year-old Peter Mansfeld emerges as the leader of a group that starts collecting weapons and begins practicing revolution on a decidedly small scale. Later, the patriotic idealists kidnap a police officer and Mansfeld is sentenced to life in a political prison known as "Hell's Hallway" for his participation in the crime. At the age of eighteen Mansfeld's sentence is retroactively switched to the death penalty, and he is summarily executed less than two weeks after his birthday. Though few would realize it at the time, patriotic Hungarians all across the country would subsequently celebrate the young rebel whose life was cut decidedly short by the state as a national hero. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Fancsikai, Maia Morgenstern, (more)
One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Hungary when the Nazi pogroms begin sweeping through the country. Gyura's father (Janos Ban) has his business taken away from him not long before he's taken away to a concentration camp, and as he's led away, Gyura agrees to his father's request to look after his stepmother while he's gone. However, Gyurka takes a bus rather than the train to work the following morning, believing it to be safer, but before it can reach its destination, police stop the vehicle and take the Jewish passengers into custody. Gyurka is sent to Auschwitz, but is later transferred to Buchenwald, and finally to Zeitz; at each stop the teenager is witness to greater and greater horrors, as different varieties of torture and violence are introduced with each passing day, until his emotions begin to wear away. When American troops finally liberate Zeitz, Gyurka has been shocked into a placid serenity, and when he returns to the wreckage that is Budapest, his ravaged body and ghostly calm go mostly overlooked by the other survivors attempting to rebuild. Sorstalansag (aka Fateless) was adapted from a novel by Imre Kertesz, a Nobel Prize-winning author who is himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, (more)
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