Pizza in Auschwitz
Synopsis
Danny Hanoch is a Holocaust survivor. In his words, he has a BA (Bachelor of Auschwitz) and was fortunate to have a personal physician growing up: Dr. Mengele. This impressive man, who never sheds a tear, has succeeded joining every possible delegation to Poland and the death camps, but failed to do one thing: convince his children, Miri and Sagi, to visit the landscape of his lost childhood with him. In six days, inside one van, father, children and a film crew travel ‘that’ Europe, traversing the terrain where Danny was forced to ‘camp’ again and again. When they reach Birkenau, the ‘final destination’, Danny wants to fulfill a life-long fantasy: to spend the night in his old barracks, on his old bunk, with his own children. Around a tray of pizza, bought in the nearby town of Auschwitz, father and children have the inevitable blow-out filled with black humor and great pain.
Credits
Director(s)
Moshe Zimerman
Producer(s)
Osnat Trabelsi & Moshe Zimerman
Script
Moshe Zimerman
Cinematography
Avi Kener & Moshe Zimerman
Editor
Inbar Tavor
Original Music
Ellyot
Editing Director
Tali Goldenberg
Writing and Narration
Miri Chanoch
Festival Highlights
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WINNER
Youth Jury of the FilmschuleDok Leipzig2008 -
WINNER
The Golden Dragon prizeKrakow IFF2008 -
WINNER
Grand PrixBerdyansk Film Festival2008
Dok Leipzig, Germany, Official Competition, 2008
IDFA, The Netherlands, Best of Fest, 2008
Doc Point Helsinki, Finland, 2008
ZagrebDox , Croatia, 2008
One World, Czech Republic, 2009
Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy, 2009
BAFICI, Argentina, 2009
OXDOX, UK, 2009
Vision Du Reel , Switzerland, 2009
Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, 2009
NodoDocFest, Italy, 2009
Krakow International Film Festival, Poland, 2009
IFFTAC- International Festival of Films on Tribal Art & Culture, India, 2009
Moscow International Film Festival, Russia, 2009
Sole Luna International Film Festival, Italy, 2009
One World Bratislava, Slovakia, 2009
Perspektive : International Human Rights Film Festival, Germany, 2009
PRAVO LJUDSKI Human rights Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009
Boston Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2009
WATCH DOCS- Human rights in films FF, Poland, 2009
Berdyansk Film Festival, Ukraine, 2009
Flahertiana International documentary film festival, Russia, 2009
This human world, Austria, 2009
Magnolia International Documentary Awards, China, 2009
Lodz of Four Cultures Festiva, Poland, 2009
Kaunas International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2009
Reviews
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"With a box of takeaway pizza, a camera, candles and emotions running at their highest, father and daughter fight out their lost childhoods."
- Jessica Elgot, The Jewish Chronicle
