“The Zone of Interest” kept the camera away from the Nazi atrocities.
We watched a “normal” German family literally living next door to a concentration camp. Only the nauseating sounds of the death camp crept into the Oscar-winning film.
“Bardejov” puts a human face on the Holocaust, and we’re all the better for it. This lesser-known story of heroism offers a complex portrait of fear and resourcefulness.
Led by a never-better Robert Davi, “Bardejov” is a worthy addition to the Holocaust film genre, and it’s timing couldn’t be better given the shocking rise in antisemitism across the globe.
Davi plays Rafuel Lowy, a Jewish leader struggling to protect his people from the Nazi’s expanding empire. It’s 1942, and the Slovakian town of Bardejov is increasingly...