''1945'' is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by

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and co-written by Török and

Gábor T. Szántó ''The native form of this personal name is Szántó T. Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.'' Gábor T. Szántó is a Hungarian novelist, screenwriter, poet, essayist and editor (Budapest, 1966— ). Life Gábor T. Szántó was bor ...

. It concerns two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who arrive in a Hungarian village in August 1945, and the paranoid reactions of the villagers, some of whom fear that these and other Jews are coming to reclaim Jewish property. The film was screened in the Panorama section at the

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and was awarded the 3rd place prize in the Panorama Audience Award.

Cast

* as Mr. István * as Mr. Árpád * Tamás Szabó Kimmel as Jancsi * Dóra Sztarenki as Kisrózsi * Ági Szirtes as Mrs. Kustár * József Szarvas as Kustár András * Eszter Nagy-Kálózy as Mrs. Szentes * Iván Angelusz as Sámuel Hermann * Marcell Nagy as Sámuel's son *

János Derzsi János Derzsi (born 20 April 1954 in Nyírábrány Nyírábrány is a large village in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically ...

as War veteran

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97%, based on 67 reviews, and an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "''1945'' sifts through the aftermath of the Holocaust to offer a sober, well-crafted look at a variety of weighty themes." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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* * * * {{Metacritic film, title=1945 2017 films 2017 independent films 2017 drama films 2010s historical drama films Hungarian historical drama films Hungarian black-and-white films Films about the aftermath of the Holocaust Hungarian independent films 2010s Hungarian-language films Hungarian World War II films Hungarian war drama films