All My Loved Ones Movie Review 2000

Moving fictionalized account by director Minac of his mother's recollections of being one of nearly 700 Czech Jewish children saved in the Kindertransport trains. Briton Nicholas Winton (Graves) is on holiday in Prague in 1938; recognizing the worsening situation for the Jews in Czechoslovakia, he discovers that both Sweden and Britain are willing to take in child refugees if he can transport them out of the country. One of these potential transportees is 10-year-old David (Holicek), a member of a weathy family who fail to recognize the seriousness of their situation. Czech with subtitles.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 91 minutes.
Originally from Czech.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Childhood Visions, Eastern Europe, Period Piece: 1930s, Judaism

Screenplay

Jiri Hubac

Cast

Rupert Graves, Libuse Safrankova, Josef Abrham, Jiri Bartoska, Brano Holicek, Jiri Menzel

Cinematography

Dodo Simoncic

Director

Matej Minac

Music

Janusz Stoklosa