“All of Ida Fink’s stories talk about that period, that milieu, and about the everyday life of people trying to survive and remain human beings during the hell of the Holocaust. The screenplay, written by Motti Lerner, is essentially a combination of two of Ida Fink’s short stories, “A Conversation” and “Spring Morning”, with hints and nuances from the author’s other writings. “Every movie is an exhausting journey to the unknown, but this project is a dream come true and I hope that in the end it will not become a nightmare”, Barbash says, “This is a once in a lifetime experience because of the nature of the story, the subject, the way it is being filmed, and the people making it”. Flashbacks from the spring of 1941, when she lost in one single blow her entire world, keep flooding back to her - her physician husband, her two daughters, the occupation of the city by the German army, and the hiding place they find with a farmer’s wife that changed their lives. It has been 30 years since she left the country that betrayed her and she has not looked back. “Spring 1941” returns Clara Fink (Claire Higgins), a world-famous Jewish cellist who lives in Canada, to the Polish town where she was born, for a dedication of a concert hall in her name. This journey to the depths of hell is accompanied by a cast of British and Polish actors led by Joseph Fiennes, Claire Higgins, Neve Macintosh, Mirik Baka, and Maria Pakulnis. Israeli director Uri Barbash describes the past two months in Poland, making the final preparations for filming the movie "Spring 1941" as "a once in a lifetime experience".
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