Adir Miller’s film, “The Ring,” opened yesterday, and because it is about Hungary and the Holocaust, we went to see it.  We didn’t think it would be as good as it was – we thought it would be great to see Jewish Budapest again.

But it was good.  The fact that it was a version of the biography of members of the family, didn’t make it less good.  Most people in Israel have horror stories that brought them to find shelter here – if not now then one or two generations back.  

The fact that the hotel in the film was the Gellert, and Ezi’s grandfather built the spa there, was a detail that made the film more real to us, but not what made it authentic and genuine.  (I can even add that there is a shot of Budapest that was taken from the room we stayed in at the Gellert).  

The sense of the truth of the story, and the relevance of the importance of survival to the people of Israel today is what got me.  Even though I could find many places where it could have been edited,  I was really happy to see this film. Go see it.