A voice of conscience. August 1945. The Second World War continues. The US is bombing Japan with nuclear weapons. Hungary is controlled by the Soviet Union. Elections for the government of “New Hungary” are soon to take place, which are approaching under heavy pressure from communist propaganda.
One of the Hungarian settlements in the hassle and preparations for the wedding. Suddenly, two strangers appear at the station. Their approach to the locals like a bolt from the clear sky. Their measured and relatively calm life explodes with a heap of events and emotions.
From all the cracks to the surface begin to crawl out all sorts of “skeletons from cabinets”. For every adult there comes a "moment of truth" - a one-on-one meeting with the voice of a suppressed conscience, from which there is no escape and no escape.
Hungarian filmmakers in the film 1945 continue the best traditions of the European “movie of anxiety”. Director Ferenc Terek deserves applause for a talented restrained honest film on the topic of human responsibility for their actions. Without excuses and justification by coercion by external forces.
The film also continues the line of Polish films “Ida” by Pavel Pawlikowski and “Koloski” by Władysław Pasikowski in realizing the importance of revealing historical national painful themes that try not to remember, not to discuss and not to recognize. Deserves respect and support.
My opinion is very good.
8 out of 10