‘The Hungarian Dressmaker’ Focuses on a Dark Slovak Past Many Try to Forget

Slovak director Iveta Grofova says she became fascinated with one of the darkest periods in her country’s recent past when she read Peter Kristufek’s book “Emma and the Death’s Head,” which tells the story of Marika, a Hungarian widow who shelters a young Jewish boy in her home. Set near the Hungarian border during WWII […]