The Partisan with the Leica Camera
A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son, Simon, discovers that his father, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki, and his mother, the housewife Hannah Bern, were the commanders of a Polish assassination squad that operated during the Holocaust. The chilling facts are backed by unique photos taken in the forest by Mundek, the partisan, on his Leica camera.
WINNER, Best Documentary Award , Festival du Cinéma Israélien de Paris , 2023,
Directed by Ruth Walk
Israel, 2022
Documentary
Hebrew, English, Polish (with English subtitles)
54 minutes
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The Partisan with the Leica Camera
A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story. Hidden secrets revealed when 65-year-old son, Simon, discovers that his father, the photographer Mundek Lukawiecki, and his mother, the housewife Hannah Bern, were the commanders of...
