The Bartos Family - Private Hungary, part 1

First episode in director’s Péter Forgács "Private Hungary" series which is based on a home footage that document the daily life of the Hungarians, before, during and after WWII. This part presents the work of a talented amateur filmmaker Zoltán Bartos, a chanson composer and lumber businessman who made more than five hours of 9,5mm amateur film from the late twenties until the mid sixties. In 1944 the Hungarian “Quisling government” plundered the half Jewish Bartos family. Following the Nazi period, surviving the war in a Forced Jewish Labor unite, Zoltán divorced and remarry. Later the Communists rage the Hungarian citizen's life; in 1949 his plant was nationalized and lost everything again, except his humor.