1945 (2017 film)

1945 is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Ferenc Török^[2] and co-written by Török and Gábor T. Szántó. 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.^[3]

1945
Film poster
Directed by	Ferenc Török
Written by	Gábor T. Szántó Ferenc Török
Produced by	Iván Angelusz Péter Reich Ferenc Török
Starring	Péter Rudolf Tamás Szabó Kimmel Dóra Sztarenki Bence Tasnádi
Cinematography	Elemér Ragályi
Edited by	Béla Barsi
Music by	Tibor Szemző
Production company	Katapult Film
Distributed by	Katapult Film
Release dates	12 February 2017 (2017-02-12) (Berlin) 20 April 2017 (2017-04-20) (Hungary)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Hungary
Language	Hungarian
Box office	$1 million[1]

The film was screened in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the 3rd place prize in the Panorama Audience Award.^[4]

Cast

• Péter Rudolf [Wikidata] as Mr. István
• Bence Tasnádi [hu] 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 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."^[5] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 73 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[6]