No first-person account of life in a Nazi concentration camp could ever be called "romantic," but the story of Jack Polak and Ina Soep — two Dutch Jews who survived internment in Bergen-Belsen, and whose lives are chronicled in Michele Ohayon's uplifting documentary — comes close.
When the Nazis invaded Holland in May 1940, Jack Polak was a poor, unhappily married accountant working with his father and living with his wife, Manja, in a cramped Amsterdam house. Ina Soep, the teenage daughter of the second-biggest diamond manufacturer in Holland, was living a life of luxury in the comfortable bosom of her wealthy family. Within weeks of the invasion, the Nazi...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins