The Notebook

The Notebook (A Nagy Füzet, 2013) is a war drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by János Szász, this Austrian-German-French-Hungarian co-production adapts Ágota Kristóf's 1986 novel: two thirteen-year-old twin brothers are left with their cruel, alcoholic grandmother in a Hungarian border village as World War II collapses around them.

The twins, played by András and László Gyémánt in their screen debuts, keep a notebook — a flat, factual record of what they see adults do. What they see is merciless. Their conclusion: the only way through is to stop feeling. A co-production spanning four countries, the film is one of European cinema's most unsparing looks at what war does to children. Stream The Notebook (2013) online on iFILM.