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The film is about the lack of human touch. The dystopia is set in a world where an unknown virus makes people unable to touch each other. Mother, father, son: we confront the problem through a Hungarian family, and search for a solution with them in this extraordinary road movie. It is no coincidence that the story takes place in winter. And it is no coincidence that it takes place by Europe's largest lake. Where the landscape is icy and cold and blue and white. And only in flashbacks do we find ourselves in the warm summer. When all seemed well.
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.
Four outnumbered hungarian soldiers hold a stand in the woods, against the soviet army, near the end of the second world war.
A true story of a prisoner of the Siberian Gulag about hope. About hope, that we can stay human beings during the cruelest suffering.
After her husband is assassinated, housewife Nóra reluctantly has to take charge of the criminal business of her family.
Abel, 12, has to face the fact that his parents are living in two completely different galaxies of the universe. Now he has to decide which one he belongs to.
Andrei finds an enormous carrot on a field. He gathers his family to dig it out, but soon scientists of a nearby nuclear power plant take notice. Andrei would do anything to keep his treasure and feed his family.
In October, 1956, during the Hungarian revolution against communism, a small town's students burn their russian grammar books believing they'll never have to learn russian language again. After the revolution is crushed by the soviet troops, the students have to have a russian book to be not kicked out of the school. A young boy risks his life and limb to help his idol, an older boy from the school finding a book while he tries to be a friend of him.
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.
