2011
1 h 43 m

2011
1 h 43 m

Summary This film is about a Catholic high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary who while doing research in local history discovers the lost Jewish community that once thrived there. She shares her research with her students, teaching tolerance, fighting prejudice. She organized a memorial for this lost community, which was attended by the Mayor, ...

Directed By: Gabor Kalman

2011
1 h 43 m

2011
1 h 43 m

There Was Once...

Name: There Was Once...
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Released: 2011-09-23
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Rating: 64

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Gabor Kalman

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Variety

Sep 24, 2011

Hungarian schoolteacher Gyongi Mago's campaign to raise awareness of her hometown's once-vibrant, now conspicuously absent Jewish population is captured in the superior docu There Was Once ...

By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Sep 22, 2011

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.

By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Sep 19, 2011

A not insignificant act of oral history, Gabor Kalman's There Was Once… makes for considerably less compelling cinema whenever it turns its focus away from the talking-head testimony of the Holocaust survivors of Kalosca, Hungary.

By Andrew Schenker FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Sep 22, 2011

Ah, well. "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.

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Village Voice

Sep 20, 2011

The neo-Nazi sentiment in Hungary today is touched on most acutely when it mars the memorial that finally brings the survivors home.

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Release Date Sep 23, 2011

Duration 1 h 43 m

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