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Director
Gerry Gregg
Credits
Producer:Gerry Gregg
Writers:Gerry GreggTomi Reichental
Principal Cast
Tomi ReichentalSami AiyobJan GrossAlexandra Senfft
Category
Documentary
Bergen-Belsen survivor Tomi Reichental has embarked on a lifelong quest to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive so that its horrors will never be repeated. Now Tomi symbolically celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin mosque and embarks on an epic journey across a Europe in turmoil. In Germany, Tomi concludes his long quest to bring the convicted SS war criminal Hilde Michnia to account. In Poland and Slovakia, he confronts the ‘crisis of shame’ that obscures the scale of local ‘collusion’ with the Nazi extermination project. In Bosnia, he embraces Muslim survivors of a genocide who still search for the bones of their loved ones. Along the way he puts himself into the shoes of the “new Jews” and discovers a strong common bond with refugees fleeing the hell that is Syria. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn
90 minutes, Ireland, 2017, Colour
BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY 16:00
EAFFI DISCOVERIES – GREEN WAVE 18.20
HOLY COW 13:50
MOTEL DESTINO 13:10, 20:45
PARTHENOPE 15:40
RIEFENSTAHL 18:10
THE PENGUIN LESSONS 15:50
THE RETURN 20:35
THE WEDDING BANQUET 13:20, 18:30, 20:50
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