"To live with ghosts requires solitude."
Anne Michaels wrote a novel about a Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew who ran away to escape the Nazi's after they took his sister and parents. Jeremy Podeswa turned the novel into a poetic film of stunning beauty and depth. Stephen Dillane, (a new favorite actor), and Robbie Kay, (turning in a remarkable performance), play Jakob as a man and boy. This is a journey of survival, integrity, and a love story between Jakob and a Greek archeologist, Athos Roussos, (played with hearbreaking nuance by Rade Sherbedgia), who saved him and raised him. I give this film a ten and some tears.
Anne Michaels wrote a novel about a Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew who ran away to escape the Nazi's after they took his sister and parents. Jeremy Podeswa turned the novel into a poetic film of stunning beauty and depth. Stephen Dillane, (a new favorite actor), and Robbie Kay, (turning in a remarkable performance), play Jakob as a man and boy. This is a journey of survival, integrity, and a love story between Jakob and a Greek archeologist, Athos Roussos, (played with hearbreaking nuance by Rade Sherbedgia), who saved him and raised him. I give this film a ten and some tears.