Having sexual intercourse naked in the woods is pretty wild when you're in love and SS fanatics with dogs are hunting you. That's the high point of this movie about two individuals who managed to escape from the Auschwitz nightmare city during the unspeakable horrors of WW2. The rest of the movie is a poorly conceived account of Hannah in 1976 (the unrecognisable older version, played by Dagmar Manzel) lost in a dream of her 30 years-ago lover who rescued her. After what seems hours and hours of filmed effort, hampered by her uncomprehending and poorly acted husband and daughter, she finally manages to telephone him, then just breaks down. The film is half-an-hour too long, and their love is barely credible outside the freakish horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp and fervid naked intercourse in the woods. Not recommended except for people inclined to wallow in sentiment.
Review of Remembrance
