There Is Once ... (Egyzer volt)

A Gabor Kalman, Cinema-Film co-production. Created by Kalman, Gabor Garami. Directed by Gabor Kalman.With: Gyongi Mago, Gabor Kalman, Avoi Toth, Thomas Kertesz, Torak Gusztav Andor. (Hungarian, British dialogue)Hungarian schoolteacher Gyongi Mago's campaign to boost understanding of her hometown's once-vibrant, now plainly absent Jewish human population is taken within the superior docu "There Is Once ... " Getting discovered fresh details about her small village of Kolocsa while finishing her dissertation, Mago beckoned several children to Kolocsa for any visit, including Gabor Kalman, the director of the well-crafted Holocaust-hindsight movie. Kalman's pic certainly warrants TV exposure after its Sept. 23 bows in Gotham and La. Kolocsa supplies a perfect historic microcosm: Every building brings up yesteryear, in the Structure from the Archbishop towards the centrally situated library (when a synagogue) towards the houses on Tomori Street, designated as Kolocsa's own little Jewish ghetto after Nazi occupation. "There Is Once" eventually ends up within the town square having a ceremonial unveiling of plaques commemorating the Jewish dead throughout World war 2 (replicas of endured ones present in a neglected Jewish graveyard) the potentially troublesome, right-wing extremist rally transpiring just blocks away registers as just like strangely appropriate.Camera (color, HD), Zsolt Toth, John Dunham editors, Kate Amend, Susan Metzger music, Mark So. Examined on DVD, NY, Sept. 20, 2011. Running time: 104 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com