My Name is Sara

2019 American film
CinematographyMarian Prokop [pl]Edited byAgnieszka GlinskaMusic byŁukasz Targosz
Production
companies
James Lucy Productions
Media Luna New Films
Watchout Studio
Release date
  • 21 July 2019 (2019-07-21) (Giffoni Film Festival)
Running time
111 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesEnglish
Polish
Russian
German

My Name is Sara (also known as The Occupation[1]) is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Oritt, starring Zuzanna Surowy, Eryk Lubos [pl] and Michalina Olszańska. It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.

Cast

  • Zuzanna Surowy as Sara
  • Eryk Lubos [pl] as Pavlo
  • Michalina Olszańska as Nadya
  • Ksawery Szlenkier [pl] as Avram
  • Aleksandra Pisula [pl] as Tsivia
  • Iwona Bielska [pl] as Vira Ivanenko
  • Paweł Królikowski [pl] as Ivan
  • Konrad Cichon as Moishe
  • Piotr Nerlewski [pl] as Grisha
  • Artur Sokolski as Danylo
  • Marcin Sokolski as Stepan
  • Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska [pl] as Pavlo's mother
  • Stanislaw Cywka as Boris
  • Izabela Dąbrowska as Marina
  • Lech Dyblik [pl] as Fedir Ivanenko
  • Radosław Kaim as German Soldier
  • Wiesław Komasa [pl] as Father Oleksa
  • Maciej Mikołajczyk [pl] as SS Officer
  • Bartosz Porczyk [pl] as Captain
  • Ryszard Ronczewski as Pavlo's Father

Release

The film premiered at the Giffoni Film Festival on 21 July 2019.[2]

Reception

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it a "torment in cinematic form, made engrossing by its focus on a singular experience, and the performance that anchors it", writing that Surowy "has that gift of letting the surroundings and events absorb and reflect her."[3]

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "has its share of physically and emotionally tough moments", and called Surowy's performance "gripping, deeply textured and sympathetic".[4]

Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times called the film "intermittently powerful if somewhat stiff-jointed" and wrote that it can be "clunkily expository" and "frustratingly vague."[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Occupation, Feature Film, 2017-2019 | Crew United". crew-united.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  2. ^ Finos, Arianna (13 July 2022). "'My name is Sara', la storia di una tredicenne ebrea parla ai ragazzi di oggi". la Repubblica. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  3. ^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (13 July 2019). "My Name is Sara". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  4. ^ Goldstein, Gary (20 July 2022). "Review: The terror of the Holocaust resonates in the survival drama 'My Name Is Sara'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  5. ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (13 July 2022). "'My Name Is Sara' Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

External links

  • My Name is Sara at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • My Name is Sara at Rotten Tomatoes