Remember Your Name (1974)

Original title

Помни имя свое

Directed by

Sergey Kolosov

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Soviet Union, Poland

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet woman and her son are separated in Auschwitz. Years after the war, she searches for him and finds that he has grown up in Poland under a new identity.

emotionalbittersweetseriousslow-pacedreflectivesomberpersonal

What happens

Remember Your Name (Russian: По́мни и́мя своё; Polish: Zapamiętaj imię swoje) is a Soviet-Polish film by Sergey Kolosov. The film is based on the story of the Russian prisoner of Auschwitz Zinaida Georgievna Muravyova, who was separated there from her son Gennady. She found him only years later, when he lived in Poland under the name of Eugeniusz Gruszczynski (after the war he was taken to an orphanage in Lower Silesia, where he was adopted by Polish educator Elena Grushinska) and was a student of the Szczecin polytechnic. In 1969 in Poland, about Grushinsky was released half-hour TV movie Numer 149850. It could also be inspired by a ten-minute documentary, Children of the Rams (Dzieci rampy, 1963), directed by Andrzej Piekutowski, showing among the survivors of Auschwitz a girl who found, several years after the war, her real parents in the Soviet Union. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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