Award-winning documentarian Simcha Jacobovici presents an innovative, deeply personal, multi-layered exploration into the darkest corners of his Romanian family’s history. Rounded up with relatives for mass execution in 1941, Jacobovici’s father was shot, yet miraculously survived with a bullet lodged near his heart. Jacobovici’s cousin suffered an even more bizarre fate: he survived the war but was forced to star in a Communist propaganda film. A haunting account of Romania’s Jewish community and of one family that endured the unimaginable.
Production Felix Golubev, Simcha Jacobovici (producers) Ric Esther Bienstock (executive producer), Alberta Nokes (executive producer for VisionTV)
AUDIO: English
SUBTITLE: Romanian
awards and festivals
2007 – The Gemini Awards - nomination for Best History Documentary Program 2007 – Rome International Film Festival – Cult Award for Best Documentary Film 2008 – Palm Beach Intrenational Film Festival