Once They Were Neighbours

Screw Your Courage

Synagogue For Sale

Mr. Mom

Ghetto, brick factory, train station, mass graves - 60 years later the neighbours of the Hungarian Jews remember. What did they do and what could have been done? What did the bystanders see and what do they believe they saw in their small town community during the last days of World
War II?

"I don't like to talk about it. These are bad memories."
"They were born here. They never thought they would ever leave."
"It was a topsy-turvy world... The average people could do nothing."
"We were quite close friends but still, they never told me anything about
what had happened to them over there. I didn't ask, they didn't say..."

DVCAM, length: 65 min., 2005, Hungary
Hungarian with English subtitles (original title: Szomszédok voltak)

Director, cinematographer:
Script, interviews:
Producer, composer:
Editor:
Zsuzsanna Varga
Bori Kriza
Balázs Wizner
László Hargittai
Produced by: Metaforum Film
Október 6. u. 3.
Budapest 1051 Hungary
Tel.: +36 1 4111245
Fax: +36 1 4110195

Photo: Hungarian National Museum Historical Photo Archive
Photo: Bori Kriza
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