PERSEVERANCE
POLISH TITLE: WYTRWAŁOŚĆ
Ben Barenholtz is an eminent producer who assisted at the birth of independent cinema in New York and became famous, among others, due to his collaboration with David Lynch and the Coen brothers. Ben is also the child of the Holocaust. After many years, together with his brother, he travels back to Volyn, where the painful World War II memories of his family story come flooding back. “I do not want to be yet another story of a Holocaust survivor”, says Ben, not with the intention of cutting himself off from the past but in order to express the overwhelming need of survival.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 70'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Małgorzata Imielska
- SCRIPT:
- Małgorzata Imielska
- DOP:
- Przemysław Niczyporuk
- EDITOR:
- Ireneusz Grzyb
- MUSIC:
- Michał Lorenc
- PRODUCTION:
- Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
Małgorzata Imielska »
Film director and screenwriter. Graduate of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her documentaries focus primarily on World War II and the Holocaust. She also directs television theatre performances. Her most important awards, gained in Huston, Krakow and Canton, among others, were in recognition of her documentary Tell Me Why (2006). Currently, she is developing her feature-length documentary Love and Empty Words.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2016 (competition)