‘Memoirs of a River’

Judit Elek’s lucid yet passionate 1992 Hungarian film is based on an historical injustice: the 19th-Century Tizseaszlar trial, one of the most famous anti-Semitic incidents in Hungarian history. When a group of loggers are thrown into jail by a furiously prejudiced commissar (Janos Acs) on a trumped-up charge of ritual murder, the film’s style gets tighter and harder (Bravo Monday at noon and 7 p.m., Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.).