Stratos Highlight - Dear Mr Waldman
This Week's Highlight
Dear Mr Waldman (Michtavim Le
America) (2006):
Writer/director Hanan Peled has crafted a magnificent film that has as much to say about blind devotion and chronic denialism - ironically, on both sides of the Nazi persecution of the Jews - as the immediate and lingering effects of systemic ethnic cleansing.
Short synopsis: In the early sixties, Hilik, a ten-year-old boy who lives in Tel Aviv, is torn between fear that his father, a holocaust survivor, would abandon him, and the wish to make him happy. Hilik chooses to test his father's love to him, while accepting the risk of losing him.
STRATOS Monday 20 April at 8.30pm
Triangle TV's Auckland Schedule: Apr 18-24
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