Garri Urban was a survivor – not a victim – of both the Holocaust and Gulag. Born in the shtetl (the Jewish rural community) in 1916, he overcame adversity through a mixture of charm, aggression, and chutzpah. His 1980 autobiographical account of his adventures took its title from when he was shot during his attempt to swim across an icy river from Soviet-held territory to Romania. He told the snipers who stooped to lift his apparently lifeless body; “no, tovarisch (comrade), I’m not dead” before striking their officer.
In 1992 his son, film-maker Stuart Urban, follows Garri into the former Soviet Union as soon as Communism disintegrates.
The video diaries that were made over a 14 year quest into Garri’s KGB records and the fate of his family in the Holocaust, plus extensive 16mm Kodachrome home movies from the 1950s onwards, form the core of the film, by two-time British Academy award winning director Stuart.
Fantastically interesting documentary. An anthropologist meets a hidden jewish community in north Ethiopia and learns their special story of survival. For more information: [email protected]
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“The main thing is the stage, there you can be whatever you want and make dreams come true” that’s the way Niko Nitai, the actor, director & play writer, defined and lived his life. The film follows Nitai in the last 3 years of his life and inlaid with archives from his work.
'Is That You?' Is an Israeli Academy Award Winning film. Starring the renown Alon Aboutboul (London Has Fallen, Dark Knight Rises) as Ronnie, a 60 year old man looking for his ex-girlfriend from 40 years ago.
