Lost Time (2011)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The lost time |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anna Justice |
| script | Pamela Katz |
| production | Sven Woldt |
| music |
Christoph Emperor Julian Maas |
| camera | Sebastian Edschmid |
| cut | Uta Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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The Lost Time is a 2011 German drama about the Holocaust directed by Anna Justice . The main roles are cast with Alice Dwyer , Mateusz Damiecki , Dagmar Manzel and Susanne Lothar . Pamela Katz's screenplay is based on Jerzy Bielecki's book Who saves a life - The story of a love in Auschwitz . The opening credits of the film read “After true events” and the closing credits “Our special thanks go to Jerzy Bielecki”.
Only after more than thirty years do the former lovers Hannah and Tomasz, who managed to escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , see each other again.
action
The German Jewess Hannah Silberstein, now living in New York, now married Levine, who once fled Europe from the National Socialists , sees pictures of a man in a television documentary in 1976. She recognizes in him her former lover, Kapo Tomasz Limanowski, who helped her to escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944 and thus saved her life. He organized an SS uniform through a prisoner from the clothing store and smuggled Hannah out of the camp to "interrogate" her. Since Hannah was separated from Tomasz at the end of the war, she thought he was dead. After the war she emigrated and has been married for many years to a psychiatrist, with whom she has a daughter.
The report upsets her in such a way that the birthday celebrations in honor of Hannah's husband Daniel suffered. Again and again, Hannah recalls formative memories of her time with Tomasz during the Second World War . At that time Hannah and Tomasz managed to make their way to the Limanowski family estate. But there the Nazis had spread out. The old stable master of the family helped Tomasz and he saw his mother Stefania again. Although she hugged her son overjoyed, she wanted him to break up with Hannah, a Jew who would put them all in danger. Since Tomasz's brother Czeslaw was a member of the Polish Home Army , a military resistance organization, Tomasz urgently wanted to speak to him. Because it was too dangerous and Hannah also had a high fever at the time, he had to leave her with his mother. He assured her that he would be back in a few days. Hannah suffered a miscarriage during this time. After Stefania's attempt to reveal Hannah's hiding place to a German officer failed, the young woman fled from her shortly afterwards. She found refuge on the farm of Czeslaw's wife Magda. When Czeslaw returned without Tomasz, Hannah feared he was dead. After Magda and Czeslaw were abducted by Russian units, Hannah walked west in the freezing winter and was picked up by a Red Cross convoy. However, Tomasz had survived, but was lied to on his return by his mother, who told him that Hannah was dead.
Her long-suppressed feelings for Tomasz, which she had forbidden herself when she had to assume that he was dead, prompt Hannah to resume the search for him that she had once started. She learns that he lives with his daughter in a small Polish town. A phone call between the two of them upsets both Hannah and Tomasz deeply. Hannah's husband says that he believed he was more involved in the action. Hannah lets him know in a letter that he will always be her great love, but that she will have to meet with Tomasz in order to wrap up what happened at the time. The fact that Tomasz is alive makes her feel liberated because he has risked his life for her.
When Hannah gets off the bus, Tomasz is already waiting for her.
criticism
“By means of the framework and flashbacks to the Nazi era, a biography shaken by the turmoil of history is illuminated. Thanks to the discreet music and the clearly structured plot, it is not sentimentally charged, even if the dramaturgy sometimes gets bumpy. "
Production notes
The film premiered in Germany on November 24, 2011 . The film was released in the United States under the title Remembrance .
Awards
- Best Director - Anna Justice, International Film Festival of Tamilnadu 2012
- Best Image Creation - Sebastian Edschmid, Warsaw Jewish Film Festival 2012
- Audience Award for Best Drama, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2012
- Audience Award for Best Film, Zagreb Jewish Film Festival 2012
- Audience Award for Best Feature Film Drama, London Jewish Film Festival 2011
- Audience Award for Feature Film, Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival 2011
- Audience Award for Feature Film, San Francisco Berlin & Beyond Film Festival 2011
- Audience award at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival 2011
Web links
- The time lost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The lost time at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The lost time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Start dates for Lost Time . (No longer available online.) In: IMDb.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
