During the Second World War, now 79-year-old Jan Wiener fled from the Nazis through Yugoslavia and Italy to Great Britain where he fought as an RAF pilot. Because of that he was put into a Communist camp in his own country. Later he emigrated and lives now in Lenox, Massachusetts. Arnost Lustig, a journalist, author and screenwriter who spent part of his childhood in a concentration camp, became a close friend of Wiener.Together they revisit places where Wiener went through various dramatic even tragic events and meet people who helped him through that difficult time. The protagonists do not always agree about what happened or what the events signified, that it sometimes threatens even their old friendship.
Amir Bar-Lev graduated from Brown University in 1994 and then studied at Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU) under Jiri Menzel and Jan Nemec. He has written and directed programs for PBS and ESPN television and for the Outdoor Life Channel. He also worked for HBO, editing such programs as Real Sex, Preventing Violence with Groark and Place/ Setting. His feature-length directorial debut is the documentary Fighter. He now lives and works as a writer-director in Los Angeles.
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