All My Loved Ones

All My Loved Ones (1999)

Všichni moji blízcí

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.

Date of release
1999-10-21
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, History
Director
Matej Mináč

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Czech Lion Awards

All My Loved Ones is a 1999 Czech-language film directed by Matěj Mináč. It was an international co-production between Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It was Slovakia's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination.

Development

Mináč got the idea for "a film about what preceded the war from the perspective of a child" from stories recounted by his mother. For further inspiration, he visited the Jewish Museum in Prague and read Vera Gissing's Pearls of My Childhood, which briefly mentioned Nicholas Winton rescuing hundreds of children before the war. From this Mináč wrote a treatment.

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