"Men Who Have Lost Their Roots" "This film was shot in di_erent Hungarian refugee camps in lower Austria." "Warning State Border" "A man among the forest of men was plucked from his native soil in an attempt to replant him in better earth." "Someone has come to harvest him." "A new land holds him prisoner with its careful etiquette and greenhouse climate." "At the window, he glimpses his companions." "they seem to him small and anonymous, though he resembles them." "They don't have much luggage." "except for their memories." "The memories that they hold locked away and which leave little space for new things." "They are hungry, but they don't know it themselves." "The beds are less bitter, they announce the coming night and prepare the short sleep of oblivion." "It is first necessary to search for new papers." "New papers are less bothersome than the foreign words they contain, di_icult to translate." "These children, here, could be children from anywhere." "They could have le_ their wise parents at home." "They are the children of refugees." "They le_ their parents in a camp, people without parents." "This woman could return from her walk." "This other won't go to meet her husband," "And this is not a Sunday couple." "Occupations have nearly become habitual." "ln the mess tins, now, family life is reflected." "The days no longer matter, but in the evening one can coniure the illusion of being home." "The days take on the routine of Sundays." "But the days are not Sundays;" "nor is Sunday itself." "The children apprentice themselves to freedom and to days well spent." "Grown-ups become children again and learn a language with which they were unfamiliar." "If one escapes for a moment from his condition, or if one runs to give himself that illusion, to the post o_ice, for example, it is to find once again, perhaps more quickly," "that which one wishes to be able to forget through a letter from those who remain." "One takes what recreation one finds or that one is given." "For a moment, one escapes from his universe, discovered from far away, but always near enough." "The women knit the future" "of others who never cease to wait," "of others who return home without a key or a door to open." "Newcomers arrive" "and everything will start again without ever having stopped."