This Monday the press junket group went to see the films Private History ( Gábor Bódy, Péter Timár, 1978) and The Danube Exodus ( Péter Forgács, 1998) at IDFA at Pathé Munt. We saw the two films that were created from a lot of archival film material. Our focus was on the latter one and its director Forgács. Private history, that Forgás got his inspiration from, was politically charged but the message was hidden behind the surface: on the surface there was "microhistory" that did not seem to make a general coherent storyline. We saw archival footage edited together with music that sometimes was a pain for the ears. There was footage of Hitler and nazism implemented in the film, but only for a fleeting moment. The Danube exodus had a more prominent line of action. It conveyed the story of jews escaping from a gruesome future when Nazi Germany took over Central Europe. The story told about a captain of a two boats who sailed long distances and experienced difficult times w