Fighter (2000)

Directed by

Amir Bar-Lev

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Jewish men who survived World War II return to Europe to visit places connected to their past. The film follows one man as he retraces his escape route and together they go to former concentration camps.

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What happens

Fighter is a documentary film about Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011) and Jan Wiener (1920–2010), two Jews who return to Europe to revisit the past. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, Lustig was a Prague-based journalist and author. The German-born Wiener escaped from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and joined the Royal Air Force in Italy. The film retraces Wiener's escape route, and visits Theresienstadt (where Wiener's mother died), Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. It received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival, and the audience award at the Hamptons International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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