The Interpreter

The Interpreter
Tlumočník

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria / 2018 / 113 min
Fiction

The Interpreter
Tlumočník

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria / 2018 / 113 min
Fiction

Eighty-year-old interpreter Ali Ungár comes across a book by a former SS officer, in which the author describes his wartime activities in Slovakia. Ali realises one of the passages probably recounts the execution of his parents. He sets out to visit the former SS-man living in Vienna. But instead of the murderer of his parents, Ali finds only the Nazi’s seventy-year-old son. Georg is a former teacher struggling with alcohol addiction, who had distanced from his father’s past throughout his entire life. However, Ali´s visit stirs his curiosity, and he decides to find out who exactly his father was. And thus the two old men – the ascetic Ali and the bon-vivant Georg – embark on a journey to find surviving witnesses of the wartime tragedy.

Cast / Jiří Menzel , Peter Simonischek , Zuzana Mauréry , Réka Derzsi , Anna Rakovská , Eva Kramerová , Attila Mokos    Writer / Marek Leščák , Martin Šulík    DoP / Martin Štrba    Editor / Olina Kaufmanová    Sound / Klaus Kellerman , Pavel Rejholec    Music / Vladimír Godár    Set Designer / František Lipták

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