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Warsaw. April 19th, 1942 – Hanna Mandelberg, a 12 year old Jewish girl who fled the ghetto via the sewer pipes, roams hungry, enfeebled and totally exhausted, through the freezing cold streets of Warsaw.
And then, out of nowhere, a light is shining; Hanna just makes it to that door and collapses. In the morning, the doors open and Hanna is carried inside. It is a monastery. Two days will pass until Hanna will tell the Mother Superior that she is Anna Litvinska, a 15 year-old Catholic girl from the City of Lodge. At that very moment, Hanna Mandelberg no longer exists…
Anna stays in the monastery for a couple of years, and decides, against all odds, to survive. Thus, she erases her childhood memories, and fully identifies with her new role as a Catholic nun. As such, she also serves as an emissary for the Polish underground, risking her life transmitting letters and weapons to different agents throughout Poland.
She is amazed to discover that among the underground members, there is no other than Karl
Wojtyla, whom she loves and cherishes, and who, years later, will become Pope John Paul II.
It's an amazing unique story which was never ever told before.
In a breath taking impressionistic way and a brilliant sound design succeeds in bringing alive a painful reality of an identity, loneliness, forgetting and above all - survival.
Not just another Holocaust story
Based on the book "A star Between the Cross" by Hanna Avrutzky |
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