Watermarks

This documentary tells the story the Jewish women swimmers of Hakoah Vienna sport association that during the 1930’s won a number of competitions in Austria. The gifted swimmers refused to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and which Olympic and their careers were broken up with the outbreak of World War II. The Nazis closed Hakoah Vienna in 1938, but thanks to a rescue operation the women swimmers succeeded to escape from Austria short while before the war broke through. 65 years later, the film director gets together this group of women and reunited them for a last swim in the Vienna Olympic Swimming Pool. The film was awarded a number of prizes at Jewish Film Festivals over the world, and the award of the best photography at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Participants: Yehudit Haspel Trudy Hirschler Anny Lampel Henny Luchs Ann Mary Pisker Nanny Zlinger Gerta Stanton Elisheva Sutz