Directed by:
Jeremy PodeswaCinematography:
Gregory MiddletonComposer:
Nikos KypourgosCast:
Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Ed Stoppard, Ayelet Zurer, Rachelle Lefevre, Robbie Kay, Marcia Bennett, Daniel Kash, Nina Dobrev (more)Plots(1)
The film opens in Poland, as young Jakob Berr (Robbie Kay) is hidden away just before German soldiers storm into his Jewish family's home. After watching his parents murdered and his sister dragged away to an uncertain fate, Jakob flees and hides in the woods. He is discovered by a kindly Greek archaeologist, Athos (Rade Sherbedgia), who smuggles the sickly Jakob back to his own island home and hides him for the rest of the war. Years later, having moved to Canada, the grownup Jakob (Stephen Dillane) has become a writer struggling to articulate his childhood horrors, haunted by the mystery of his sister's fate. But after his troubled emotions lead to the breakup of his marriage to the free-spirited Alex (Rosamund Pike), Jakob must exorcise the ghosts of his past if he is to close a traumatic chapter of his life and find beauty in the present. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Stephen Dillane
UK
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Rade Serbedzija
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Rosamund Pike
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Ed Stoppard
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Ayelet Zurer
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Rachelle Lefevre
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Robbie Kay
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Daniel Kash
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Devon Bostick
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Jennifer Podemski
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Danae Skiadi
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Larissa Laskin
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Adrian Frieling
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Sarah Orenstein
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Dmitry Chepovetsky
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