In this travelogue, Forgács documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats. He filmed his passengers while they prayed, slept and even got married. At the end of this journey, it is clear that the boat will not return empty: a reverse exodus takes place, this time of repatriating Bessarabian Germans, fleeing to the Third Reich because of the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia
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Péter Forgács Director
Budget $400K · United States release July 29, 1998 · Produced in Netherlands
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$400,000
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Netherlands
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Dutch
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United States · July 29, 1998
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Greece
March 25, 2000 · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Italy
October 1, 2021 · Digital · Archivio Aperto
Netherlands
November 1, 1998 · Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
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