Development - ENGLISH - Drama - 120 minutes
Flesh and Blood is a story of love, betrayal, and redemption. It is based on real events; on the life of renowned screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. The film shows his relationship with his beloved father who raised him and betrayed him by hiding a terrible secret - the fact that he was a war criminal.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Istvan SZABO Writer(s) : Joe ESZTERHAS Producer(s) : Jeno HODI (SHADOW PRODUCTIONS KFT.)
Istvan Eszterhas escaped with his three month old son Joe and his wife from Hungary in 1945 and spent five years in a camp in Austria before getting to the Hungarian ghetto of Cleveland, where he worked as the editor of a local Hungarian newspaper. Instilling in Joe values such as compassion and tolerance, Istvan raised his son to become Hollywood's most successful writer. Five years after MUSIC BOX, fiction became reality as Istvan was accused of being a war criminal. Joe found himself protecting his father, the man he loved most and who had made him into the man he was. But what if your hero ended up being everything you had been taught to detest? And what if he was your own Flesh and Blood?
Country(ies) : HUNGARY, CANADA