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URUGUAY - Despite Treblinka
A pesar a Treblinka

Holocaust survivors of the Treblinka prison camp, now living in Uruguay, Poland and Israel, reminisce to their children and grandchildren, and to the camera, and watch their own earlier testimonies, and those of others, in a screening room. Harrowing, sometimes even humorous, and ultimately inspiring, with highlights including accounts of a post-war romance, a one-in-a-million chance fraternal reunion, and a hair-raising, bullet-riddled actual breakout from Treblinka. Yet another Holocaust documentary, but with a strikingly different tone.

Unos sobrevivientes de la prisión Treblinka del Holocausto, que ahora residen en Uruguay, Polonia e Israel, relatan cuentos del pasado a sus niños y nietos y a la cámara, y miran sus propios testimonios anteriores y los de otros, en una sala de proyección. Inquietante, a veces chistoso, y en fin inspirador, el film incluye cuentos de un romance de la posguerra, una reunión fraternal inverosímil y un escape espeluznante de Treblinka que verdaderamente ocurrió. Es otro documental del Holocausto, pero con tono único.

DIRECTOR Gerardo Stawsky PRODUCER Gerardo Stawsky SCREENPLAY Gerardo Stawsky CINEMATOGRAPHY Daniel Cheico, Daniel Rodríguez Maseda and Eyal Selah EDITOR Fernando Epstein MUSIC John Zorn. 2002, Color, 90 min, Spanish with subtitles.

 

 

 


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