Steal a Pencil for Me

Name: Steal a Pencil for Me
Genre: Romance, Documentary
Released: November 9, 2007
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 69

2007

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Westlake Entertainment Group | Release Date: November 9, 2007

Summary: It's 1943, and Holland is under Nazi occupation. At a birthday party in Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, meets Ina, a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are beingIt's 1943, and Holland is under Nazi occupation. At a birthday party in Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, meets Ina, a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, husband, wife, and lover find themselves at the same concentration camp, living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the "girlfriend" in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war. Steal a Pencil for Me is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award nominee Michele Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. (Seventh Art Releasing)… Expand

Director: Michèle Ohayon

Genre(s): Romance, Documentary

Runtime: 94 min

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Leba Hertz

A terrific documentary about forbidden love in the most heinous of places. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Amazingly, many of Jack's and Ina's letters survived and -- read aloud by Dutch actors Jeroen Krabbe and Ellen Ten Damme -- serve as the thematic thread that runs through Ohayon's film. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Gentle study in human resilience and luck. Read full review

Kevin Crust

Tells this most unusual love story with grace and compassion. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

There have been dozens of Holocaust documentaries, and one could well argue that the world doesn't need another. But Michèle Ohayon's Steal a Pencil for Me offers a simple human story of dignity, levity and romance. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

What makes Ms. Ohayon’s movie special is its recognition that epic horrors don’t erase private dramas. Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

Although their love is undeniably a blessing, I was disconcerted watching the elderly couple smile and chuckle today as they recall their daily letters and secret meetings in the midst of such wide-scale death. Read full review

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