Forgiveness (2008 film)

Forgiveness is a 2008 American dramatic Holocaust film written and directed by PolishAmerican director Mariusz Kotowski, with a screenplay by Allan Knee. The film is marked as being the directors first featurelength film.

Years later, Apollonias daughter Maria Patterson Shelley CaleneBlack and Esthers daughter Sarah Blumenfeld Sydney Barrosse, have become successful professional women, but each still deals with the memories of the Holocaust via strained relationships with their respective mothers. Esther dies but has left a memoir of her experiences in the camp with her daughter, Sarah. Apollonia is confined to nursing home and though Maria tries her best to care or her, she and her mother are at constant odds. A secret that Apollonia has been hiding comes to light, and the uncovering of this secret causes Apollonia and Maria to resolve their differences and brings Maria and Sarah into each others lives.The films story is told through a series of narratives from a fictional memoir of the period, illustrated with archival footage provided by the AuschwitzBirkenau State Museum, Owicim, Poland, additional archive material from the Jewish Historical Institute, and photographs of the concentration camp ruins by Michael Kenna. Some of the films archival footage comes from the same sources used in the French short film Night And Fog. ........

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