Father

Father

Diary of One Week

196688 min6.7 / 10

A melancholic, introspective drama about a man confronting the gap between his idealized childhood memories of his father and the darker historical truth of his wartime past.

When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy fantasizes about the man his father was, imagining him a hero. Grown into a man himself, Tako falls for a Jewish refugee, Anni. Burdened by her own heritage as a Jew, Anni sparks in Tako a desire to find out what his father was really like, and he delves into the role his father played in World War II.

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