The first incarnation of Forced March, the 1989 tribute to acclaimed Hungarian poet and Holocaust survivor Miklós Radnóti that will be shown — in re-edited, digitalized form — at Quad Cinema on November 1, was plagued by unexpectedly bad timing. It was shot in Hungary exactly 25 years ago, just when Communism — and, in turn, Soviet funding for the arts — was trickling out of the country. The budget sank, and the local Hungarian crew struggled to keep up with the demands of the contract. Co-producers/co-writers Karl Bardosh and Dick Atkins and director Rick King pulled together to bring Forced March in for $2.7 million. But back home, the independent film in...
- 11/1/2013
- Village Voice
Forced March is a film about filmmaking in which an actor, Ben Kline (Chris Sarandon), portrays Miklos Radnoti, a famous Hungarian Jew, in an attempt to retrace and come to terms with his own family's traumatizing experiences with the Holocaust. It sounds like a mouthful because it is. Thankfully, director Rick King's elliptical editing weaves a captivating multigenerational story about guilt, family ties, and the power of forgiveness, one as timely now as it was upon its original release (to too little fanfare) in 1988. With scant media coverage here, Jobbik, a neo-fascist, ultra-conservative political "movement for a better Hungary," holds nearly 20 percent of the country's parliamentary control today, a historical déjà vu that would seem unbelievable if...
- 10/30/2013
- Village Voice
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