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There Was Once...

There Was Once... (2011)

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Mrs. Gyongyi Mago is a high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary. While looking for a subject for her dissertation she discovered a forgotten part of local history, the Jewish community that once thrived but is now non-existent in her city. She is not Jewish. Engaging her students in her research, she… More

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Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Sep 23, 2011 Limited

Critic Reviews

  • David DeWitt, New York Times

    "There Was Once ...may feel like sober, do-gooder public television, but it has integrity, recording one specific town's slice of living history. Simple as that, it's a worthy document.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Much in this wholly absorbing and poignant documentary is familiar from numerous previous Holocaust accounts, but Mago and her quiet sense of moral obligation provides a fresh perspective.

  • Michelle Orange, Village Voice

    A vitally personal version of a story often told in anonymous terms.

  • Nora Lee Mandel, Film-Forward.com

    Starts out like a teacher's history lesson about a vanished past, but turns into a detective story as memories collide, link to witnesses, and a nightmare starts to repeat.

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