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Forgiveness (2008)

Forgiveness poster
Directed by
Mariusz Kotowski
Genre
drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film centers on a Holocaust survivor who revisits the past and the conflict between remembering and forgiving. The story follows her personal struggles in the years after World War Two.

somberreflectiveemotionalsparseslow-pacedhistoricalseriousintimate

What happens

Forgiveness, also known as Esther's Diary, is a 2008 American dramatic Holocaust film written and directed by Polish-American director Mariusz Kotowski, with a screenplay by Allan Knee. The film is marked as being the director's first feature-length film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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