Overview
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.
Director and cast
- Michael Verhoeven Director
- George Tabori as George Tabori
- Pauline Collins as Elsa Tabori
- Ulrich Tukur as SS-Offizier
- Natalie Morse as Maria
- Robert Giggenbach as Cornelius Tabori
- Heribert Sasse as Kelemen
- Günter Bothur Cast
- Simon Verhoeven as Junger SS-Mann
- Buddy Elias as Rabbi
- Peter Radtke as Man in Wheel Chair
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