The Hungarian Dressmaker

Genres: Drama, War

Counries: Czech Republic, Slovakia

Companies: PubRes, Total HelpArt T.H.A., Campfilm, RTVS, Česká televize

Runtime: 129 minutes

Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.