A Project of the Jewish Community Center

Canada, Greece / 2008 / 105 minutes / English, Greek, Yiddish, German with English subtitles
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Tuesday, May 17 8:30 pm / Wednesday, May 18 6:00 pm
A new land, a new life…still, the heart never forgets.
Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic, and emotionallycharged
drama about love, loss and redemption.
Jakob Beer is a nine-year-old boy in 1942 Poland.
Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents and abducted
his teenage sister, Bella. Traumatized by this horrific
event, Jakob sneaks out of his hiding place and
struggles to survive. He is found by Athos Roussos,
a Greek archaeologist working at a Polish dig site in
Biskupin. Moved by the child’s plight, Athos boldly
smuggles Jakob out of Poland and hides him in his home on the island of Zakynthos in Greece,
also occupied by the Germans. After the war, Athos and Jakob emigrate to Canada. Over the course
of his life, Jakob remains haunted by his parents’ death and the question of his sister’s fate.
Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from
the legacy of his past. Based on the best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels.
Genre: Drama Rating: NR
H Winner Jury Award Best Film, Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer - Newport Beach Film Festival
H Winner Audience Award - Sarasota Film Festival
H Winner Best Actor for Rade Serbedzija - Rome Film Festival