In this unique drama, layered with humor, eighty-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realizes that this is the very man who executed his parents, and he decides to set out to take revenge. Instead, he finds the man’s seventy-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers to be Ali’s interpreter as the two elderly men, complete polar opposites, embark upon a bittersweet journey to meet surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy that impacted both of their lives. They discover a country eager to forget its past and realize their own memories are fragments mixed with their imagination and interpretation.
Slovakia's official submission to this year's Academy Awards.
Film Programmer Talk following the screening