Production Companies: Hungarian Motion Picture Ltd. , Magic Media , EuroArts , Renegade Films , Hungarian Television , MDR , Cinema Soleil , Eurimages , Hungarian Historic Foundation , Ingenious Media , The Israel Film Council , MFG Filmförderung , The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports , The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage , Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung , Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary , Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project , Recanati Foundation .
Overview: An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.