Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20257/10
With the Nazis having reduced Warsaw to little more than rubble, the young “Alex” (Jordan Kiziuk) is separated from his family, who have been sent to a concentration camp, and is now forced to scavenge as best he can amongst the ruins. Fortunately, this is a resourceful young lad who quickly learns his way around the ghetto using the sewers and the attics to keep himself safe. That’s easier said than done as the water supply has been turned off and food is extremely scarce. There are still people in the city but with plenty prepared to turn him in for an apple or a loaf of bread, he has to be very wary of whom he can trust. His encounter with fellow refugees “Freddy” (Lee Ross) and “Henyrk” (Simon Gregor) alerts him to a way out of their squalid environment into safer parts but he still hopes for a reunion with his dad “Stefan” (Patrick Bergin) and for that to happen, however unlikely, he must risk remaining in a Jewish quarter that is being slowly demolished by the invaders. It’s a lot of responsibility for this young lad who really only has himself and his pet mouse “Snow” against perils around every corner, and Kiziuk holds that role together engagingly well. This film is also q
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Cast
- Patrick BerginStefan
- Jordan KiziukAlex
- Jack WardenBoruch
- James BolamDoctor Studjinsky
- Michael ByrneBolek
- Stefan SaukGoehler
- Suzanna HamiltonStasya's Mother
- Marek GrabowskiAdam
- Marcin HermanJoseph
- Paweł LauterbachBenny
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- Søren Kragh-JacobsenDirector
- Tony GrisoniWriter
- John GoldsmithWriter
- Uri OrlevNovel
- Ian WilsonDirector of Photography
- Zbigniew PreisnerOriginal Music Composer
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