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Watermarks
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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"Yaron Zilberman's wonderful, 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 virtualIy dominated nationaI competitions in the 1930s.
An uplifting tale of survival 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 oId Vienna swimming pool. The result is so incredibIy touching that Boston Globe critic Wesley Morris wrote, "The images of them swimming together after aII those years are beautifuI and a Iittle hoIy: They Iook Iike angeIs in the water."
AIternating between painstakingly researched historicaI footage and contemporary interviews with the women swimmer, Yaron ZiIberman daringly re-connects the Iives and memories of those who challenged the status quo and, for the occasion of his movie, braveIy share their complex legacy of tolerance and integrity with future generations. "As these women telI their stories in a tone of wonderment," says New York Times fiIm critic Stephen HoIden, "Watermarks becomes more than a pointed footnote to the holocaust. lt emerges as a surprisingIy encouraging reflection on the distance between youth and advanced age. |
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