Movie Drama
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.
Hungary Hungary United States of America
Chris Sarandon Renée Soutendijk Josef Sommer John Seitz Bill Raymond Michael Higgins Paul Jerricho Hans Jakob László Rajk Larry Golden Can Togay György Korcsmáros Zoltán Vereczkey Zsuzsa Bánki Alan Goodson Anna Ráckevei John Snyder Kenneth Kimmins Carin C. Tietze Susan Frailey Ferenc Kozari Béla Unger George Zelma Gary Dworkin Karl Bardosh Istvan Pataki János Vészi Csaba Kelemen Sándor Boros Zoltán Rátóti András Dér Istvan Szabo Ferenc Dávid Kiss Tamás Balikó Gábor Ferenczi Gyorgy Fabri Zoltán Berzsenyi András Surányi András Ambrus Elemer Csiszer Laszlo Sos Gábor Piroch Kati Rácz
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