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The Optimists

2000, Movie, NR, 82 mins

The Optimists: Review

Jacky Comforty's unexpectedly uplifting documentary about the plight of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust begins with an all-too-familiar scenario. In the early morning darkness of March 10, 1943, all the Jews in the Bulgarian town of Pazardjik were roused from their beds, ordered to pack a few of their belongings and marched at gunpoint to a schoolyard to await deportation. Bulgaria had allied itself with Germany's Nazi regime, and Bulgarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied te... read more leave a comment