Mondani a mondhatatlant – Elie Wiesel üzenete

“Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.” In his debut novel Night (1960), Elie Wiesel succeeds in finding words for the unspeakable horror of the Shoah, which, once read, serve as a continual admonition to never forget. For its part, Judit Elek’s film is an impressively subtle, comprehensive and inobtrusive attempt to grasp Elie Wiesel as a person, his tireless efforts to combat forgetting and his timeless oeuvre, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in additional many other awards. The central part of the film is formed by Wiesel’s first trip back to his home village of Sighetu Marmației and the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp which he survived, all of which is meticulously documented by the camera.