Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
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Title: My Name Is Sara (2019)
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6 wins & 2 nominations.
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| Zuzanna Surowy | ... | Sara | |
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Konrad Cichon | ... | Moishe |
| Pawel Królikowski | ... | Ivan | |
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Piotr Nerlewski | ... | Grisha |
| Michalina Olszanska | ... | Nadya | |
| Eryk Lubos | ... | Pavlo | |
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Artur Sokolski | ... | Danylo |
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Marcin Sokolski | ... | Stepan |
| Aleksandra Pisula | ... | Tsivia | |
| Ksawery Szlenkier | ... | Avram | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Iwona Bielska | ... | Vira Ivanenko | |
| Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska | ... | Pavlo's mother | |
| Stanislaw Cywka | ... | Boris | |
| Izabela Dabrowska | ... | Marina | |
| Lech Dyblik | ... | Fedir Ivanenko | |
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Tells the true life-story of Sara Guralnick, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend's identity and finds refuge in a small village where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity. Written by Steven Oritt
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The film portrays the survival story of young Sara, portrayed with subtle intensity by Zuzanna Surowy. Amongst the horrors of the Nazi occupation, and the ferocious Jews persecution in the Ukraine the protagonist manages to escape pretending to be a gentile. The peasant she shelters with are not good or altruistic, they are just downtrodden people, fiercely attached to their land and traditions. While the cinematography and the direction is passable but not memorable and the story line somehow mundane, probably the better aspect of the production reside in the depiction of the local peasant society, of their perennial straggle against whatever power exploit them and their self-reliance. People that cannot afford to be generous or open-minded. There are only few acts of genuine altruism and many more of the opposite but the unsentimental and non-judgmental approach to the storytelling is refreshing, leaving the viewer to make up its mind on the grey morality of the real world.