Director:

Anna Justice

Remembrance
Germany | 105 minutes Genre: Drama Language: English, German, Polish, Russian with subtitles

Screenings:

Harkins Crossroads 12 Chandler | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Harkins Camelview 5 Scottsdale | Sun. Feb. 19th, 2012 | 7:00 PM

Harkins Arrowhead 18 Peoria | Thurs. Feb. 23rd, 2012 | 7:00 PM

In this epic romance spanning three decades, a Polish partisan and German Jewish woman forge an unshakeable bond in the dark shadow of the Holocaust. After a daring escape from a Nazi death camp, Tomasz and a pregnant Hannah (impressive leads Mateusz Damiecki and Alice Dwyer) are forcibly separated in the chaos of war, each convinced the other has died. The events of 1944 Poland are crosscut with 1976 Brooklyn, where an older Hannah (Dagmar Manzel)—now a married mother—glimpses a television interview that rocks her to the core. The stunning realization that her lost love may still be alive triggers a spiral of unresolved emotions and moral ambiguities as Hannah must now confront her unresolved past. Based on actual events, Remembrance is a heartfelt journey told with restraint and compassion by award-winning director Anna Justice.

"A Holocaust saga that hits unusual and unexpected notes, and a cross-cultural love story with historical insight and depth. From beginning to end, from top to bottom, 'Remembrance' is an immersive, intelligent and altogether satisfying experience." Michael Fox, JWeekly , October 20, 2011

2011 Audience Awards
UK Jewish Film Festival London
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco

Discussion Leader at Chandler Crossroads 12

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic Film Critic

For more than twenty years, Bill Goodykoontz has been the film critic extraordinaire for The Arizona Republic. He also serves as chief critic for Gannet Newspapers. From 2004-2010, he was an adjunct instructor at Arizona State University.

Guest Speaker at Arrowhead 18, Peoria

Paul Wieser, Holocaust Expert

Paul Wieser is a fifteen-year Board Member of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors’ Association, a Mandel Fellow of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, author of numerous articles, contributing author to two books on the Holocaust, and a former director of the Braun Holocaust Institute-Blick Center for Holocaust Studies for the ADL.

Remembrance