My Name is Sara
It’s an absorbing, affecting, well-performed look at several years in the life of Sara Góralnik, who, in 1942 at age 12, escaped imminent death.
My Name is Sara
MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding her own greatest secret that she must strive to protect: her true identity.
Genre
Drama,
History,
Jewish Culture,
Bio-pic
Runtime
112
Language
English,
German,
Russian,
Polish
FEATURED REVIEW
Nora Lee Mandel, Maven's Nest
Context is usefully key in this absorbing, realistically touching version of Sara Góralnik Shapiro’s difficult testimony, 60+ years later, of how she as a girl survived the Holocaust. The introductory background and map emphasize that the people in the towns and villages of eastern Poland and ...
Played at
Town Center 5 7.22.22 - 8.04.22
Royal 7.22.22 - 8.04.22
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 9.23.22 - 10.09.22
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