They’re a background detailb in the background of a lot of World War Two films: resistance fighters. They’re characterised as brave, heroic even, but we rarely see what they do. When we see them, they’re mostly young men, the occasional young woman. It would be distracting – and distinctly uncomfortable – to see them as they really were. Their acts of violence distinguishable from terrorism only by the context, by the act that that their targets were seen as criminal by most of the world. And the fact that, amongst their number, there were children.
Motele Schlein was a Belorussian boy who distinguished himself with one particular act early on in his career as a resistance fighter, and that incident provided the inspiration for this Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. The film stars Anton Krymskiy as Mitka, a 12-year-old violin prodigy and the sole survivor of a Nazi attack which.
Motele Schlein was a Belorussian boy who distinguished himself with one particular act early on in his career as a resistance fighter, and that incident provided the inspiration for this Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. The film stars Anton Krymskiy as Mitka, a 12-year-old violin prodigy and the sole survivor of a Nazi attack which.
- 1/22/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Nakam
A short film on a big subject. A 12-year-old boy taking on a huge burden. A true story from World War Two, reimagined only slightly, sees young violin prodigy Mitka (Anton Krymskiy) smuggle explosives into the bar where he works in a desperate bid to assassinate a group of SS commanders. The partisans backing him are trying to turn the tide of the war. He’s looking for revenge for his murdered family. The problem is that blowing up the bar could also cost the life of pianist Yegor (Yevgeni Sitokhin), his only friend.
This is Nakam, the Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. I met up with the young German filmmaker just a short time after he received the news.
“We're really excited,” he says, his face shining. “I'm really excited that we got onto the shortlist and everything, and we'll see how it goes. But yeah, we were really,...
A short film on a big subject. A 12-year-old boy taking on a huge burden. A true story from World War Two, reimagined only slightly, sees young violin prodigy Mitka (Anton Krymskiy) smuggle explosives into the bar where he works in a desperate bid to assassinate a group of SS commanders. The partisans backing him are trying to turn the tide of the war. He’s looking for revenge for his murdered family. The problem is that blowing up the bar could also cost the life of pianist Yegor (Yevgeni Sitokhin), his only friend.
This is Nakam, the Oscar-shortlisted short film by Andreas Kessler. I met up with the young German filmmaker just a short time after he received the news.
“We're really excited,” he says, his face shining. “I'm really excited that we got onto the shortlist and everything, and we'll see how it goes. But yeah, we were really,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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