Films by Ilona Rothin

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Ilona Rothin

A grandmother tells her granddaughter a story, as many grandmothers do. But the story Sara Atzmon tells her granddaughter is an extraordinarily different story. One of an unending journey across half of Europe. Stopping at places with strange names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald. A ride in cattlecars full of people who were starving, freezing and had no toilet. A story of children who were playing in a concentration camp next to dead bodies and betting on who would die of starvatio