There Was Once
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Cast & Crew
Gabor Kalman
Thomas Kertesz
Gabor Kalman
Gyongi Mago
Eva Toth
Torak Gusztav Andor
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Mrs. Gyöngyi Magò is a high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary. While looking for a subject for her dissertation she discovered a forgotten part of local history, the Jewish community that once thrived, but is now non-existent in her city. She is not Jewish. Engaging her students in her research, she teaches tolerance and fights prejudice in her classroom. Her quest is set against a background of renewed racial tensions, growing intolerance and the recurrence of neo Nazism in Hungary today. She has managed to persuade the City leadership to commemorate this extinct community on the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the local ghetto and deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz and other camps. At the same time a neo-Nazi demonstration was taking place a few blocks away.
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Gabor Kalman
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Limited Release in United States Fall September 23, 2011
Limited Release in United States Fall September 23, 2011 (Los Angeles & New York City)
