Neither Memory Nor Magic

This film tells the riveting story of Miklos Radnoti a Hungarian poet who perished in the Holocaust Throughout his forced travels from the Bor copper mine in Serbia to a remote work camp and finally to a mass grave in a Hungarian village Radnoti was determined to keep writing and to find a way to preserve his poems The film is at once a love story an examination of Radnotis patriotism and a sobering view of the Hungarian holocaust Radnotis startlingly original poems are read in translation and most movingly in Hungarian