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FREE FALL
The private history series of Péter Forgács is enriched by "video opera", with an unusual approach. When all Jews of Nazi occupied Europe vanished, the Hungarian Jewish community was still intact in the early spring of 1944. What happened with the Jews of this country which was a faithful ally of the thrird Reich since the beginning of the war?
This story has been told in several ways. We heard the painful truth of the innocent people's death marches, we saw thousends of meters of provoking pictures of the evil science and the bureaucratic mass homicide system. The Holocaust. Be quit, or shout?
How did it happen? How did they fall in? How did it look from inside, the atmosphere of the "would be victims' lives"
The dry language of Jewish laws and its consequences? How do you understand the law, if an angel's voice recites them to ears? Slowly eroding feelings of security, narrowing life sphere and unpredictable events and hopes until the end...
How does one suppress the fearful signs of threatening evidence? How are these illusions of a Hungarian Jewish family eroded step by step?
The home movies of Mr. György Peto are the source ot these times, which were filmed from 1938 till march 1944. The Free Fall
is a private film-video opera , composed on these private film images, with the unique music of Tibor Szamzo.
- Director Péter Forgács,
- BBSA, Hungary, 1996
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Päivitys: 29.1.1998
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