Documentary Drama \ 52 Min. \ trilogy \ Languages: German, English, Hebrew \ Production Status: Editing – Rough Cut, fund raising
The War After is a 3 part series, observing Europeans more then 60 years after WWII through a new original prism. Each feature is made through the eyes of different holocaust survivors confronting their homeland. Audiences will get a fresh new glance in the faces of their demons.
1. The War After
How do you heal a past you cannot change? The War After follows the descendants of Nazi perpetrators and Jewish Holocaust survivors on an extraordinary journey. Carrying an unbearable weight, these descendants come together in a rare workshop that recreates traumatic events from the lives of their parents and grandparents. Led by an Israeli and German psychotherapist, these participants expose their emotional struggles through theatrical role playing. Inside the inner circle of this workshop and on a haunting train ride to Auschwitz, we witness deeply personal transformations and reveal a remarkable therapeutic process.
2. The Three Vows
The Three Vows follows Kolpanitzky as he returns to his home village of Lachvah, Byelorussia where he survived the slaughterings in the Nazi Ghettos as a teenager. Kolpsnitzky will discuss his experiences in the Getto uprising of his village and the subsequent partisan resistance he joined. Along for the journey are other survivors with their families, all of whom have come to confront the horrors experienced there at the hands of the Nazis. Will visiting the land where they all endured such anguish heal the present? Or will confronting the ghosts of their pasts be to much to bear?
3. Broken Circles
Broken Circles follows a Jewish Holocaust survivor, Chaim Bar-Or, and his family back to the forest in which he buried his mother and sister during WWII. Will revisiting the horrors of his youth, where he was left alone to survive in the darkness of the wilderness, heal his fragmented soul?