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Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c[2008]
Language
English
Description
The past has cast a long shadow over the present. A picturesque farm is where the now-married Melanie lives unhappily with her husband. When Melanie invites fellow Holocaust survivor Jakob to her home, he unexpectedly brings Christopher, whose love for Melanie has never diminished since their confinement in an internment camp. Old feelings and long-suppressed memories are stirred up and reveal a climactic,...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This star-studded drama follows the story of Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, The Grand Budapest Hotel), a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Dr. Nathan Gross (Derek Jacobi, The King's Speech, Gladiator). Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis...
4) Phoenix
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
At the end of World War II, Nelly, an Auschwitz survivor, has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns home to determine whether or not her gentile husband betrayed her to the Nazis.
6) Phoenix
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Obsession, deception & secret identities: a Holocaust survivor makes the ultimate sacrifice to be with the husband who may have betrayed her in this Hitchcockian thriller.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Aron is 88 years old, Eazek is 94 and Claudine is 89. Over seventy years ago, although they lost their entire families, they survived the holocaust and resettled in New York City. Now they are sharing their stories in a unique program led by a drama therapist with high-school students in Brooklyn. The hope is that this sharing will sensitize the students and give some closure to the adult survivors after all these years. The Witness Theater workshop...
8) Bride Flight
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Bride Flight is a lavish romantic drama that charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who aspires to be a fashion designer, become fast friends during the long flight taking them to their waiting husbands, who have already settled in Christchurch.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. **Academy Award** winner. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**.
10) Bye Bye Germany
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his goal, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and at the **Seattle Film Festival.** *"...it tells an unusual story with gusto, enlivened by an enjoyable performance from Moritz Bleibtreu...."...
11) The Last Mentsch
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Having spent a lifetime concealing his heritage, an aging German Holocaust survivor tries to come to terms with his past. Born Menachem Teitelbaum, Marcus Schwarz (German Academy Award winner Mario Adorf) escaped Auschwitz with his life only to exterminate his Jewishness. Without family, a synagogue or a single Jewish friend, the hardened old man has so effectively created a new identity that, when faced with his own mortality, the rabbis refuse his...
12) The Matchmaker
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one.. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he...
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