Free Fall

all the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe vanished, the Hungarian Jewish community was still intact in the early spring of 1944. How did they happen? How did they fall, fall down and/or in? How did it look from the inside, the atmosphere of the wouldbe-victims life? The gravity, the maelstrom of history may be the key word. Listen to the dry language of the Hungarian Jewish Laws from 1938 on, and feel the consequences. How does one understand the Law, if an angel´s voice recites it into the ear? Slowly eroding feelings of security, a shrinking sphere of life, unpredictable events, and hopes until the end... how does one suppress the fearful signs of threatening evidence? How are the illusions of a Jewish family eroded, step by step? The home movies of Mr. Peto, recorded from 1938 until March 1944, are the magic source of these times. Free Fall is a private film/video opera, composed from private film images, with the unique music of Tibor Szemzò.