“Not just a story of survival, it is a statement about the values of a family that were not only considered anathema to the Nazis but to the alt-right of today. In many ways, this is the most powerful anti-fascist film you will see this or any other year.” (counterpunch.org)
In this poetic, cinematic remembrance, award-winning filmmaker Marina Willer and her father (architect Alfred Willer) movingly retrace his journey as a member of one of only 12 Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Their travels through war-torn Eastern Europe, photographed with breathtaking beauty by Academy Award nominee César Charlone (City of God), are accompanied by segments of Alfred’s memoirs (read by Tim Pigott-Smith, Quantum of Solace) detailing the horrors he witnessed before he and his loved ones finally emigrated to Brazil. In an attempt to better understand her history, her father, and ultimately herself, Willer has created a stunning and tender work about her family’s difficult past, resilience, and struggles for a more just future.
