This movie is following a Jewish family in Poland during WWII. In the beginning Clara, the main character, is getting ready for her cello concert in the town where her and her family lived. She goes and visits all the sentimental places with her daughter, explaining what happened at each place. Throughout the movie it went back and forth between young and old Clara.
The family consists of the father, Otto, the mother, Clara, and two daughters. Otto is a doctor and Clara is a cello player. The Nazi's invade Poland so they have to flee. In the middle of the night the family runs away. They hear gun shots of the soldiers shooting other Jews trying to run away. They have to jump over a fence to escape, but as they were climbing the fence one of their daughters gets shot and dies. They can't stop since the soldiers were shooting at them. The family goes the Emilia's, the lady that sold them their groceries, to hide. At Emilia's, Otto is the only one allowed out during the day because he doesn't look Jewish and they say he's Emilia's husband. Emilia starts having feelings for Otto and Otto feels like he has to respond the same because if he doesn't she will kick them out or give them up to the Germans. Otto and Emilia sleep together and she becomes pregnant. Clara finds out and gets really mad, but eventually forgives him when he stays with her. Otto continues to go upstairs to see Clara and their daughter and this make Emilia mad. Emilia kicks them out in the middle of the night. They make it to another friend’s house and I believe they turn themselves in. Either way they end up in a ghetto where Emilia is waiting to take their daughter to safety. The daughter gets caught and killed. Otto picks up his daughter’s body and carries it with him. They march the Jews into the woods and put them in a pit where the Nazi soldiers shot them. Otto stands in front of Clara so she won't get hit and Clara makes it out and survives the war. She later has a daughter and is a very successful cello player.
I really liked this movie. I thought it showed a lot of the real problems that Jews had during this time with family dying and people betraying loved ones. It was pretty fast paced and never had a boring part or a part where nothing was happening. I would definatly recommend this movie.
The man is Otto, woman on the right is Emilia, and woman on the left is Clara
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