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Rupert Graves as Nicholas Winton in Všichni moji blízcí [All My Loved Ones, 1999, EN subs]
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- description: NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED - This upload is meant for evaluation purposes only. If you like it buy the original and support the creators. 1999 In Film Praha Productions. Director: - Matej Minác Rupert Graves: - Nicholas Winton. Review The film is set in Czechoslovakia in 1938, shortly before the Nazi occupation. Writer Jirí Hubac and Director Matej Minác have created a fine and very different approach to the Holocaust stories of WW II - its insidious origins and relentless destruction of a beautiful Czech family - in the film 'Vsichni moji blízcí' ('All My Loved Ones'). Though the subject matter has been treated in countless films, this relating of the story of a large, happy, well adjusted family in Prague and its gradual disintegration does not dwell on atrocities of the camps but instead slowly unwinds the story of how Hitler's masterplan overtook and crushed so many innocent people. The Silbersteins include a physician and his wife and son, a brother who is a gypsy of sorts, another brother who is a concert violinist and falls in love with a non-Jew, accepted by his family but eventually rejected by her and her family because of the pogrom, and all manner of extended family circling in the warmth of the good life in 1939. Very gradually the Nazis take over the Czech borders, not really heeded by the Silbersteins ('no one could be as mad as Hitler may seem') and gradually the evacuation and genocide of the Jews begins. Dr Silberstein is introduced to the English stockbroker Nicholas Winton who has come to Prague to save the children by providing them safe transport to Britain. The Silbersteins reluctantly release their son when they see that is his only hope for survival: the remainder of the family's future is doomed. The color and camera work is elegant and very much in keeping with the film's emphasis on the dignity of the Silberstein family. The acting by this Czech troupe is excellent, never cloying, always sensitive to the very human response to the black cloud of the Third Reich's Holocaust. In every way this is a film to treasure. It is unreasonable to ask why weren't there more Oskar Schindlers; one inevitably wonders why weren't there more Nicholas Wintons. Mr. Winton, a real-life hero who is still living, is played in the film by Rupert Graves, who lends the character both earnestness and good looks. A coda reveals the real Mr. Winton as a guest on a BBC television show from the 1980's. He lets a tear slip when he is introduced to a group of middle-aged men and women who were among the nearly 670 children he was able to move out of Prague and into Britain. It immediately becomes the most touching and memorable moment in Mr. Minác's film. The film was an international co-production between Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was Slovakia's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. For the filmography of Rupert Graves visit http://www.rupert-graves.com/film.html
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