Every other project I tried making on the subject of the Holocaust since then, did not succeed. "At face value it is not an attractive subject or a ratings success for the people who are willing to invest money, or for television, where I have also tried a few times”.
If he had the opportunity to choose, Barbash said that the Holocaust would be the only subject for his work. I named my daughter Tema, after a Jew from the Warsaw ghetto named Tema Shneiderman.
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I am not a second-generation survivor, and yet it appears to be genetic”.įilming of the movie began in Poland last week and will continue for a month and a half. Together with finding the locations and preparing for the filming, Barbash will be staying in Poland for a few months. “Despite my closeness to the subject, I was never in Poland by decision. I thought that I needed a very good reason to make this journey and the project “Spring 1941” seemed like a good enough reason”, he says. “I arrived here with many fears and with the baggage of Polish literature and poetry which I have been close to for many years and is an inseparable part of my inner world. It is strange, but I very quickly felt at home and so I felt guilty.
I felt that I had arrived in a place where I had already been, and I found myself torn”. The reason for these difficult feelings stems from the fact that, before the war, the city of Lodz where Barbash has spent the past few months, had a Jewish population of 233,000 people, making up 34% of the city's residents. “Since the story takes place in Poland we decided to find Polish partners for the film”, says Evyatar Dotan of the Israeli film company, Traxis, which is responsible for carrying out this ambitious film project. “The complete production budget is $2.4 million and we are in touch with Sony Pictures for the distribution rights to the film. The Poles were very excited about the motifs in the film and they also see it as a mission”.
The Polish Film Institute is working with Traxis as an equal partner, and giving "Spring 1941" the highest budget of all its films this year. The Israeli production, in which the Rabinovitch fund is also a partner, aroused great interest in Poland. “It is not only the fact that it is the first equal joint production between Israel and Poland in the film sector, it is also the fact that it is a movie that touches this open wound”, he says. For the practical reasons of raising money for the production, the movie will be in English.
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