71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Emotional Arithmetic

Paolo Barzman
Canada
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In 1945, Jakob Bronski, a young dissident held at Drancy, takes two children, Melanie and Christopher, into his charge. 40 years later, Melanie discovers that a now elderly Jakob, whom she believed had been taken from Drancy to Auschwitz and killed, is still alive. She immediately invites him to live with her and her family on their farm in Canada. Jakob arrives with Christopher as a surprise for Melanie and both must face the truth of the bond between them. The past explodes into the present in an unexpected and tender love story altering life for themselves and for those around them.
Director
Paolo Barzman
Screenplay
Jefferson Lewis
Photography
Luc Montpellier
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Arthur Tarnowski
Music
Normand Corbeil
Cast
Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Max von Sydow
Running Time
95 m.
Country
Canada
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