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STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME

Director:

  Michèle Ohayon
  

Year Released:

  2006

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4.5 out of 5

4 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Jack Polak
  Ina Soep
  European Relatives/Friends
  American Progeny
  Westerbork Footage
Movie Haiku:Amsterdam couple meets in 1943 & marries in 1946. In between they’re “sent East” (first the Westerbork Transit Camp, then the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp), thereby, like many Dutch Jews, taking the same path as Anne Frank’s family into the horrors of the Holocaust. Extraordinary doc marvels at human survival strategies.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  Yes

Jewish content?

  Yes

Haiku Posted:

  2007