Zwei Namen ein Leben

Germany / Switzerland, January 1997
FILM, Documentary, 85 min.

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directed by
Elke Baur
Written by
Elke Baur
Status
In distribution

The story of some Polish survivors of the Holocaust, who as children were hidden and given false identities. Ever since the war, Elzbieta Ficowska has been trying to trace her real mother, with the help of a photo, and find the assets her father is believed to have deposited in Switzerland. Jadwiga Kotowska, the only member of her family to survive, recognises herself in a TV film, as a child begging in the ghetto. Zygmunt Warszawer survived thanks to a Polish farmer and his wife, who welcomed and hid him. Half-remembered fragments of daily experience, dreams, feelings brought together in a film essay, a Polish mosaic.

credits

World Premiere
January 1997
Original Version
Polish, German,  colour, 35mm, 85 min.
Production
Tiger TV GmbH, Carac Film AG
Producer
directed by
Elke Baur
Written by
Elke Baur
Location Sound Mix
Andreas Litmanowitsch

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Tiger TV GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
Fama Film Distribution Distribution

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