Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever,?
Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her?
grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his?
survival of the Holocaust. Sutzkever (1913–2010) was an acclaimed?
Yiddish poet — described by the New York Times as the “greatest?
poet of the Holocaust” — whose verse drew on his youth in Siberia?
and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II,?
and his post-war life in the State of Israel. Kalderon, whose?
native language is Hebrew and must rely on translation of her?
grandfather’s work, is nevertheless determined to connect with?
what remains of the poet’s bygone world and confront the personal?
responsibility of preserving her grandfather’s literary legacy.
Woven into the documentary are family home videos, newly recorded?
interviews, and archival recordings, including Sutzkever’s testimony?
at the Nuremberg Trial. Recitation of his poetry and personal?
reflections on resisting Nazi forces as a partisan fighter reveal?
how Sutzkever tried to make sense of the Holocaust and its aftermath.?
As Kalderon strives to reconstruct the stories told by her grandfather,?
the film examines the limits of language, geography, and time.
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Subtitles available in English, Spanish, Hebrew, and Lithuanian.
