Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim le America) (2006)
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In Tel Aviv, Israel, in the early 1960s, a Jewish family still chafes from the wounds it endured in the Holocaust. So begins Israeli director Hanan Peled's period drama Dear Mr. Waldman (AKA Michtavim Le America, 2006). At the center of the family unit stands 10-year-old Hilik, who sees it as… More In Tel Aviv, Israel, in the early 1960s, a Jewish family still chafes from the wounds it endured in the Holocaust. So begins Israeli director Hanan Peled's period drama Dear Mr. Waldman (AKA Michtavim Le America, 2006). At the center of the family unit stands 10-year-old Hilik, who sees it as his mission to pool his resources with those of his brother and help their parents bury the nightmare of the concentration camps. The father, Moishe's, trauma may be more deep-rooted than it appears, however; not only is he unable to free himself from the grip of the Holocaust, he lives with the persistent delusion that his son from his first marriage evaded murder in the camps, fled to a new life in America, and took a position as John F. Kennedy's assistant. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Directed By
- Hanan Peled
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 28, 2006 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
Poignant coming of age movie about a ten year old boy and his father, an Auschwitz survivor.
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Jordan Hiller, Bangitout.com
Peled's film allows us to realize damaged men and women at a vital stage in life, trying to raise a young family while at the same time being plagued by memories of evil beyond words.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...the increasingly familiar trajectory of the story becomes awfully difficult to overlook.
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S. James Wegg, JWR
... writer/director Hanan Peled has crafted a magnificent film that has as much to say about blind devotion and chronic denialism (ironically, on both sides of the Nazi persecution of the Jews) as the immediate and lingering effects of systemic ethnic cle
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Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze
Dear Mr. Waldman on DVD: A kind of Cinema Paradiso in old Tel Aviv, as a young boy imagines through exposure to far too many movies, that he possesses his own inner gladiator Spartacus, who can make his disintegrating world whole again.
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