• Director(s):

    KOGUT (SANDRA)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ZEUGMA FILMS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2001

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD

A Brazilian film-maker who has been living in Paris for ten years decides to reclaim the Hungarian nationality, the Hungarian passport, her grandparents lost when they left.

She decides to research her distant Jewish-Hungarian origins, following the route her grandparents travelled from Budapest to Rio de Janeiro in 1937, but in the other direction.
Her own search for the past is interwoven with her grandmother's version of the story, as she delves into Brazilian and Hungarian records and archives, finding long-buried treasures, and questions members of her family in Rio and Budapest. She decides to reclaim the Hungarian nationality, the Hungarian passport, her grandparents lost when they left. Both her official request and her search for political and historical truth raise fundamental questions about the concept of borders and the many-layeredness of cultural identity.

2002 : Week of the Hungarian cinema", prix du meilleur film de jeunes (Budapest); Festival International de Documentaire - It's All True 2002 : mention spéciale.