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City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without father, and their mother, so busy at work, do not notice when boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only, when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland togather with her family and go to…Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become conscious of their and their family roots.The film is a full of emotions but also humorous tentative of self statement, and in case of both kids...

Director : Ami (tadeusz) Drozd

Production Year : 2011

Duration : 90

Language : Polish

Another Truth

Documentary. During the 2nd World War the threat of total extinction hung over the Jews in Europe, given the silence of democratic countries and the Jewish Diaspora. After the war, the Poles ran a propaganda campaign designed to cleanse their conscience of the stain of indifference of Poland in relation to the extermination of its Jews, and to answer the allegations that Poland collaborated with the German extermination of the Jews. They highlighted the help Poland gave Jews and as a result the risks Poles were exposed to from their German occupiers. The film tells the history of Polish Jewry beginning in the...

Director : Jagna Wright, Aneta Naszyńska

Production Year : 2008

Duration : 41

Language : Polish