The father-in-law
An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.
Subsecretario
Budapest, 1944, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Adolf Eichman dirige la deportación masiva de judíos húngaros al campo de exterminio de Auschwitz. Ángel Sanz-Briz (Zaragoza, 1910-Roma, 1980), un diplomático de la embajada española en Budapest, utilizó todos los medios a su alcance para salvar el mayor número de vidas posible. Para ello, emitió miles de visados y pasaportes que garantizaban la inmunidad de sus portadores, que llegaron a burlar en ocasiones a las autoridades alemanas y a sus colaboradores húngaros. Su actividad cesó cuando, en diciembre de 1944, le ordenaron regresar a España. Había logrado salvar a casi 5.000 judíos. Desde entonces, se le conoce como "El Ángel de Budapest". En 1989 el Yad Vashem nombró "Justos entre las Naciones" a él y sus descendientes.
Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.
Soldier
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.
