Bau, Artist at War

Bau, Artist at War

A film by Sean McNamara

DIRECTED BY

Sean McNamara

WRITTEN BY

Deborah Smerecnik, Ron Bass, Sonia Kifferstein

PRODUCED BY

David Brookwell, Marc Griffith, Michelle P. Griffith, Sean McNamara, Deborah Smerecnik

CAST

Emile Hirsch, Inbar Lavi, Yan Tual, Josh Zuckerman, Josh Blacker, Adam Tsekhman, Edward Foy

SYNOPSIS

Bau, Artist at War” is based on the true story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during WWII, an event immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. This film is a war drama, love story, and espionage tale that needs to be told in this era where survivors are dying, and the Holocaust is slipping from memory. Using his artistic skills and his sense of humor in the camps, Joseph stays alive and helps hundreds to escape. Miraculously, he finds love in the midst of despair—a love that will last a lifetime. Years later, when called to be a key witness in the trial of the brutal Nazi officer who tortured him and killed his father, he is thrust back into vivid memories of the Holocaust and calls upon this love and resilience of spirit to face the ultimate demon of his past.

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