Pizza in Auschwitz
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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
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WINNER
Youth Jury of the FilmschuleDok Leipzig2008 -
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The Golden Dragon prizeKrakow IFF2008 -
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Grand PrixBerdyansk Film Festival2008
Festival Highlights
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
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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
