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Watermarks
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Yaron ZiIberman's wonderfuI, heartwarming Watermarks" (Kevin Thomas, ~~L.A. Times) narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports cIub Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic organizations - and its women's swim team virtually dominated national competitions in the 1930s.
An uplifting tale of survivaI and friendship, Watermarks focuses on the stories of the cIub's surviving members, while aIso faithfuIly recounting a historicaI period where prejudice and violence forced these brave women into exiIe. Now, sixty-five years after their escape, seven of Hakoah's femaIe swim team athletes leave their retrospective homes across the globe and re-unite for the first time at their old Vienna swimming pool. The result is so incredibIy touching that Boston Globe critic WesIey Morris wrote, "The images of them swimming together after aII those years are beautifuI and a little hoIy: They look like angeIs in the water."
Alternating between painstakingly researched historical footage and contemporary interviews with the women swimmer, Yaron ZiIberman daringly re-connects the lives and memories of those who challenged the status quo and, for the occasion of his movie, braveIy share their compIex Iegacy of toIerance and integrity with future generations. "As these women teIl their stories in a tone of wonderment," says New York Times film critic Stephen Holden, "Watermarks becomes more than a pointed footnote to the holocaust. It emerges as a surprisingly encouraging refIection on the distance between youth and advanced age. |
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