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I know its a horrible question but can anybody tell me if eventually lazlo was guilty because i dinat make it till the end?

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There was insufficient evidence to prove him guilty so the governments case was dismissed.
However, while in hungary w/the judge and prosecutor to interview a witness,

his daughter meets with the sister of his friend Tibor, who was mentioned earlier in the film. the sister gives Annie a pawn ticket sent to her when Tibor died and asks annie to retrieve the momento. Annie agrees and as she leaves the apt. she sees family pictures on the wall and sees that Tibor has a huge scar like the man all the witnesses in the trial linked with annies father.

She flies home and picks up the item at the pawnbrokers. It's a hungarian music box and as she's working the inner portions a secret cache of photographs pops up. They are pictures of annies father and hifriend Tibor committing all the atrocities presented at trial. She now knows he's guilty.

She confronts her father unwillingly when picking her son up from her in-laws home. He refuses to admit his guilt but when she doesnt relent he tells her no one will believe her and insists all we say she's crazy as he has friends both in America and Hungary.

She sneds a letter enclosing the pics to the prosecutor Burke.

The last seen is her reading the newspaper headline and seeing the photos splashed all over the frontpage as she takers her son through the home to the back terrace with the newspaper.

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Well, now I don't have to see the movie, do I?

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sure ! u HAVE to see the film !
its a great one by Costa Gavra and personally my fave!
Jessica Lange is GREAT !

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you can watch the movie right up until the part where its laid out for you above....problem solved

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Sonny's point about not having to see the film now is that you're potentially spoiling it for others.

If you look through the sign up procedure for IMDB's forum, one of the points stressed is that you clearly flag your posts with 'SPOILER' as a header to the relavent section in your post if you're going to reveal aspects of a movie. Without such a device, people can't browse these forums in the full confidence that someone won't blow a movie for them.

Many people can and do browse this site for information on films they're about to view, so it behooves those who have viewed them to take care with their posts by apending proper warnings.

Cheers

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lectures, gotta love'em.

hopefully people will figure out that a topic stating "the end" may actually contain a spoiler.

to mr "now i dont have to watch" i apologize (sorta).

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Completely agreed.
The subject line says it all.

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You can judge perfectly people by the way they spell. Petitpois may have made some grammar mistakes if s/he is not Anglo, although upper and lower case rules apply to all languages, but to write "seen" instead of "scene" tells me that your well warranted criticism to him/her is fruitless: we are dealing here with a simpleton. Of course Sonny is right, I'm one of the guys that didn't see any warning in the header "the end" (lower case) and thus was told about something that I didn't want to know. Stupid!

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You may have learned how to write, but you obviously haven't learned how to read... Else you would have read the OP specifically asking for a spoiler, and exited the conversation.

Manners is another thing you haven't learned...

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The original question was : "I know its a horrible question but can anybody tell me if eventually Lazlo was guilty because I didn't make it till the end? "

Wouldn't one assume it might be smart NOT to read the replies if one didn't want to know the answer? Just saying...

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Oh, PLEASE. See the film. People like you complaining about knowing what the film is about are pathetic.

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he wasn´t found guilty at the process but afterwards his daughter discovers the truth, and yes, he was guilty

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Actually, I did see this film years ago and thought it was superb. I just received a copy from Netflix because I wanted to see it again.

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People who don't want to know any spoilers shouldn't click on posts called "The End" then should they? : /

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It is better indeed, however anyone who starts reading the thread called "the end" knows what to expect, let alone after reading the opening post (which contains no spoilers but asks for them - so everyone who continues reading has been warned and takes all the responsibility.

As for the obvious plot, I agree that it was very predictable (though made by Costa Gavras). If it were European movie it could follow different paths. However, in American movies every person who is suspect for war crimes, Holocaust. child molestation, racism, family violence is almost always guilty, and if the person is male, white and adult there is no "almost", he is guilty by default.

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It's possible to title the thread subject The End without giving away any spoilers inside.

...I don't work before ten in the morning and never after four thirty in the afternoon.

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If someone begins reading the post they can stop as soon as they see that the post is giving away aspects of the movie they don't want to read before seeing the movie itself. I saw no problem with the post. I've seen the movie and thought it was a good summary of the ending. I had forgotten how it ended and didn't want to watch it all over again.

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he got off but his daughter found out the truth in the end she found some photos in the music box

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