Don't Lose Heart
2014-11-22 | 81 minutes
Plot Summary
A poignant documentary about the history of a family haunted by World War II. On the basis of archive material, documents left behind by her great-aunt Ro Miller and stories told by her father Eli Asser, Hella de Jonge reconstructs what happened to her family during, before and after the war. How they became aware of the danger, how they fled, how they hid, how they survived and how they died. And how, after the war was over, it continued to weigh on their lives. In Hella’s words, “The doctor advised my mother to have children, to help cope with the incredible loss.” A portrait of her grandmother, who died in the war, still hangs in her father’s living room. The filmmaker’s relationship with him has always been difficult. Fragments of memory never before discussed run together during an emotional journey embarked upon together by father and daughter to places of significance in the history of their family.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive
-
Will of the Warrior
-
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
-
Das Voynich-Manuskript - Die geheimnisvollste Handschrift der Welt
-
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
-
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
-
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty
-
Facing Fear
-
Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East
-
Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler
-
When We Were Kings
-
Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
-
A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
-
1982 Malvinas, La guerra desde el aire
-
Last Men in Aleppo
-
The Private Voice of Hitler
-
The Fog of War
-
White Terror
-
Zeitgeist
-
Not Quite Hollywood