Red Trees

Name: Red Trees
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 15, 2017
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Tim Pigott-Smith

2017

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Cohen Media Group | Release Date: September 15, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Tim Pigott-Smith

Summary: Marina Willer creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. The film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred, whoMarina Willer creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. The film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred, who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, Red Trees is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.… Expand

Director: Marina Willer

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Sep 16, 2017

Willer’s essay film is obviously a cathartic experience, her documenting a family history that transcends the personal towards the universal Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 11, 2017

The banality of Marina Willer’s voiceover only goes to prove the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words. Read full review

Craig D. Lindsey

Sep 14, 2017

In the end, this relentlessly scenic travelogue/valentine is Willer literally giving her old man peace of mind. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Sep 16, 2017

The sad truth is that we’ve heard countless harrowing stories of the Holocaust, and this one, for the most part, isn’t presented in a way that makes it indelible or urgent. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Sep 14, 2017

Cinematically and emotionally it’s a mixed bag, a slow-moving visual treatise and occasional vanity piece that requires — but doesn’t always earn — our indulgence. Read full review

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