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Remembrance of Love (1982)

Remembrance of Love poster
Original title
Remembrance Of Love
Directed by
Jack Smight
Genre
war film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Holocaust survivor attends a reunion in Israel. He reunites with a woman who was his teenage love during the war in Poland.

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What happens

Remembrance of Love is a 1982 war film directed by Jack Smight and starring Kirk Douglas. A reunion of Holocaust survivors in Israel brings together a couple who had been teenage lovers 35 years earlier in Poland during the Second World War. It aired as an NBC Monday Movie. Star Douglas's real-life son Eric Douglas, 23, played his father in flashbacks. Actor and singer Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor, appeared as himself. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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