Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Rupert GravesNicholas Winton
- Josef AbrhámJakub Silberstein
- Jiří Bartoška
- Libuše Šafránková
- Krzysztof Kowalewski
- Marián Labuda
- Agnieszka Wagner
- Ondřej Vetchý
- Tereza Brodská
- Jarka RytychováDr. Kuhn's Secretary
Recommendations
- 75
New York Daily News
Despite a somewhat unpolished look and a few slips into cliche, the film makes up in sincerity what it lacks in sophistication. - 70
Los Angeles Times
It is crucial when viewing All My Loved Ones, with its fine ensemble cast and well-evoked sense of time and place, to remember that it unfolds as a recollection of David, a boy of perhaps 10 in 1938. - 60
The New York Times
The material continues to carry its inherent emotional power and moral importance. As banal as the telling may be -- and at times, All My Loved Ones more than flirts with kitsch -- the tale commands attention. - 60
Village Voice
It traces a sustained and moving portrait of the worldly Sam, whose despair as the society he embraced abandons him is both clear-eyed and devastating. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The final moment of Minac's film is a powerful tribute to Winton's heroism and the magnitude of his achievement, easily eclipsing the 90 minutes that precede it. - 50
The A.V. Club
A situation of such inherent drama only suffers from the director's attempts to intensify it, and eventually, the scenes of professional and personal rejection begin to suffer from an overabundance of pathos. - 50
L.A. Weekly
The movie is loaded with good intentions, but in his zeal to squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the Holocaust escape story, Minac drains his movie of all individuality. - 40
Variety
Clearly inspired by, though not in the same dramatic league as, "Schindler's List," pic is marred by uneven perfs and lacks the intensity.
