Forced March 1989

Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.

Cast:

Chris Sarandon
Ben Kline / Miklos Radnoti 

Renée Soutendijk
Mira / Fanni Radnoti 

Josef Sommer
Richard Kline 

John Seitz
Walter Hardy 

Bill Raymond
Gyorgy 

Michael Higgins
Andras Bereg