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Budapest. In the summer of 1939. The puppet government of Slovakia is anti-Jewish and very friendly with the Third Reich. Aron Grünhut from Bratislava manages to hire two boats for the exodus of 900 Jews. One of the boats is the "Erzsébet Királyné" (Queen Elizabeth). Captain Nándor Andrásovits must have seen the importance of the trip. He meticulously filmed the travellers during the journey that takes them from Bratislava down the Danube to the Black Sea, where the "Noemi Julia" is waiting to take them to Palestine. Andrásovits film could have ended here. When Andrásovits again points his camera at the deck of the "Erzsébet Királyné", it becomes apparent that the boat will not sail back empty. As one of the results of the pact that Hitler made with Stalin the Romanian areas Bessarabia and the Northern Bukovina were given to the Soviet Union. The Germans who lived in the region had to be repatriated and the Nazis rented the same boats that have just unloaded their Jewish cargo.

Netherlands - 1998 - 1 h - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Péter Forgács Son István Horváth Montage Kati Juhász Musique Tibor Szemzõ

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