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The strange and tragic story of a man who became an unwitting witness to the holocaust is brought the screen in this adaptation of Danilo Kis's autobiographical novels. Eduard (Slobodan Custic) was an inspector looking after the Hungarian railroad system when the nation fell to the Nazis during World War II. More than three decades after the end of the war, Eduard's son (Nebojsa Dugalic) begins researching a book about his late dad and his experiences in the Thirties and Forties. As the son learns more about what his father saw and experienced during the war, he gets a clear and troubling portrait of life in a nation under occupation, the hunt for Jews under Nazi pogroms and the nightmare of the war in Serbia. Fovenyora (aka The Hourglass) was an official entry during Hungarian Film Week, where Gergely Poharnok's cinematography received special honors.