Forced March
1989 · 1 hr 44 min
Not Rated7.075%
Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war. In assuming the role of Miklos Radnoti, who left a notebook of harrowing poems from his ordeal, Kline finds himself acting not as a hero, but rather a victim who speaks to us from the grave. As Ben gets ever deeper into his role, he begins to merge with his character, blurring the boundaries of truth and illusion. The realization for Ben, and for us all, is that the best homage we can pay to those who died is to understand them... to know that they had little choice in their fate. Everyone could not be a hero, but rather simply tried to survive as best they could, and that is the legacy of the six million.
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Cast of Forced March
Chris SarandonBen Kline / Miklos Radnoti
Renée SoutendijkMira / Fanni Radnoti
Josef SommerRichard Kline
John SeitzWalter Hardy
Bill RaymondGyorgy
Michael HigginsAndras Bereg
Paul JerrichoPaul / Gyula Ortotay
Hans JakobMiklos Lorsi
László RajkLt. Antal Szall
Larry GoldenLt. Ede Maranyi
Can TogayZoltan
György KorcsmárosDraftee
Zoltán VereczkeySandor Sik
Zsuzsa BánkiFanni (today)
Alan GoodsonSanyi
Anna RáckeveiSusan
John SnyderDevlin
Kenneth KimminsAgent
Carin C. TietzeCheryl
Susan FraileyGirl at Party
Ferenc KozariAssistant Director
Béla UngerSergeant
George ZelmaLaborer in Quarry
Gary DworkinLaborer #2
Karl BardoshDoctor Bardos
Istvan PatakiPeter Koller
János VésziLaborer in Barracks
Csaba KelemenSupervisor
Sándor BorosPoliceman #1
Zoltán RátótiPriest
András DérMan on Street
Istvan SzaboSoldier
Ferenc Dávid KissSoldier
Tamás BalikóSoldier
Gábor FerencziSoldier
Gyorgy FabriGuard
Zoltán BerzsenyiGuard
András SurányiMarcher
András AmbrusCart Driver
Elemer CsiszerGardener
Laszlo SosPoliceman #2
Gábor PirochGerman on Horseback
Kati RáczSinger in Moulin Rouge
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