A HEAD SHORTER

A HEAD SHORTER

A film by Sasha Sivan Bortnik

DIRECTED BY

Sasha Sivan Bortnik

WRITTEN BY

Sasha Sivan Bortnik

PRODUCED BY

Sasha Sivan Bortnik

CAST

Naftali Deutsch

SYNOPSIS

A 2D animated documentary short narrated by Naftali Deutsch. The film begins in the spring of 1944 when Naftali and his entire family are forced to leave their home in Kimyat, a village in the Carpatho-Ukraine region, and sent to Auschwitz. Naftali recounts his harrowing journey as a 12 year old boy during the WWII era and shows us how he found himself faced with the decision to kill a Nazi guard to save his own life.

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