Hungarians apparently agree. The film is a great success there, especially among the country's roughly 100,000 Jews. In its first month, an unprecedented more than 100,000 people viewed this film in Budapest alone. Many Hungarian Jews see the film as a history of their own lives. Szabo answered, with a metaphor, a visiting Israeli's question about the lack of Zionist ideology in the film.
Every apple has a different taste, depending on the geographical location, where it is grown.
The taste of the apple is different from the taste of an apple grown in England or in Greece. This is the realistic picture of Hungary's Jewry. JTA correspondent Agnes Bohm in Budapest contributed to this report.