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By Loren King (177) for Newport This Week (RI) (54) on 09 May 2018

A subtle but powerful look at the recent aftermath of World War II through the eyes of several residents of a small village in Soviet occupied…

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By Toba Singer (10) for culturevulture.net (793) on 06 May 2018

There are few films that take up the fortunes of European Jewish survivors in the aftermath of World War II…

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By Kathy Fennessy (88) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 02 May 2018

If [Ferenc] Török takes his time identifying the characters and their relationships to each other, his seventh feature offers a particularly…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 01 May 2018

1945 benefits from its leanness. [...] The film's 90 minutes are unhurried but inexorable…

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By Edurne Larumbe Villarreal (2) for El antepenúltimo mohicano (311) on 01 May 2018

The work of [director Ferenc Törok] is, first of all, a film of contrasts, of extremes in dispute. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Apr 2018

A town wracked with guilt must come to terms with the horrors of its war atrocities in 1945, a somber drama set in the immediate aftermath of WWII…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Film Festival Today (161) on 26 Apr 2018

By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 18 Apr 2018

The cast excels. Rudolf's Istvan powerfully personifies the moral collapse that so many Europeans displayed during the Nazi era…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 11 Apr 2018

Beginning and ending at a little Hungarian railway station immediately following the end of World War II in Europe, 1945 is a rattling ghost-train…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 11 Apr 2018

A dark picture, but its bleakness is necessary, with Szanto inching away from evil-that-men-do clichés to find something profoundly psychological…

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By Alberto Bermejo (41) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 09 Apr 2018

Subtlety is the delicate mechanism on which the filmmaker builds his story... [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Martha K. Baker (133) for KDHX (St. Louis) (284) on 05 Apr 2018

1945, sobering and strangely uplifting, records horrid history, a comeuppance, a stand, and a retreat, while embracing a memorial…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 05 Apr 2018

The uneasiness is heightened by the ever-present sound design and score by Tibor Szemzö, elevating delirious precision to devious nightmare…

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By Steve Murray (153) for ArtsATL (57) on 05 Apr 2018

It's a fine addition to post-war films, just not one of the great ones…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 04 Apr 2018

The film is about the destructive nature of such beliefs, and there's a clear sense of irony to the way that Szántó and Török allow that…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 04 Apr 2018

This film adds to a growing list of Holocaust dramas and documentaries that move past the guilt of Nazi Germany to ponder the complicity of…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 04 Apr 2018

Poignant and melancholy, with the full weight of personal guilt driving the tension, 1945 is a monochrome film about a matter that is far from…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Apr 2018

There’s an air of “High Noon” to Török’s drama, which features an intrusive sound design, including Tibor Szemzö’s jarringly contemporary…

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