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Gyuri Koves is a Hungarian Jewish teenage boy caught up in the daily dramas of adolescence. When Nazi soldiers take over his native Budapest and begin imposing restrictions on the city's Jewish citizens, his comfortable life changes profoundly. Gyuri resents these restrictions, especially since he has never considered himself particularly Jewish. A rapid succession of events forces him to reconcile himself to this new daily reality. His father is taken by the Nazis and Gyuri himself is deported to a series of distant concentration camps, where survival becomes a daily goal. Gyuri prevails and is liberated by American soldiers. Still clad in his striped prison clothes, he returns to Budapest. Immediately, he senses the indifference of his neighbors to his experience. Former friends urge him to "put the ordeal out of his mind," while a sympathetic intellectual keeps referring to the camps as "the lowest circle of hell." Gyuri can relate to neither cliché and is left to ponder the meaning of his experience alone.
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| Also Known As: |
Sorstalansag
Sorstalansag (Hungary)
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama and Adaptation |
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| Running Time: |
140 min. |
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| Release Date: |
January 6th, 2006 (NY); January 27th, 2006 (LA) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for some disturbing Holocaust images including nudity, and brief strong language. |
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| Distributors: |
ThinkFilm
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| Production Co.: |
EuroArts Entertainment, Magic Media, Renegade Films
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| Financiers: |
Filmforderung Baden-Wurtemberg, Hungarian Culture Ministry, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation, Ingenious Film Partners, MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$195,888 |
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| Filming Locations: |
Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
Germany
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| Produced in: |
Hungary |
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