Those Who Remained

I gave the movie 6/10 for the work by the wonderful actors. But this movie verges on the ridiculous. It is an excellent theme-traumatized victims of the Holocaust forming a new family to help each other heal-but it is wildly inaccurate about history.

At the end of WWII, Budapest was a bombed-out wreck. Yet everywhere here, it is in fine shape, and everyone has new clothes and shiny apartments. One character talks about the wedding they were planning for the April, 1945... which was during the siege of Budapest when everyone was starving!

Then there are the unbelievable ways the doctor acts with the girl right from the start of the relationship. Propriety is a much bigger issue in Central Europe in the middle of the 20th Century. The arrangement they made would have been impossible. Only the teachers at the school seem to care!

Multiple threats in the movie just fade away to nothing as if the screenwriters forgot.

Considering the wonderful cast and potential, this movie is terribly frustrating.