NINA'S JOURNEY
(PODRӯ NINY)



2005, 120', Swedish/Polish with English subtitles

DIRECTION:
Lena Einhorn
SCRIPT:
Lena Einhorn
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Dan Myhrman
MUSIC:
Sasza Maksimov, Pawel Derentowicz
EDITING:
Irene Hatz
SOUND:
Michal Zarnecki
PRODUCER:
Kaska Krosny
PRODUCED BY:
East of West Films, Svensk Filmindustri AB

Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska (Nina), Maria Chwalibog (Fanny), Andrzej Brzeski (Artur), Pawel Iwanicki (Rudek), Iwona Sitkowska (Celinka)

Teenager Nina Rajnic, despite the growing persecution of Jews right before WW II, comes home to Lodz, Poland, from New York, where she was visiting her family. In winter 1940, the Rajnic family moves to Warsaw and a year later, they end up in the Warsaw ghetto. Nina graduates from high school there, falls in love for the first time, and goes through the nightmare of ghetto liquidation. Nina and her brother, Rudek, have their lives saved thanks to their contacts with non-Jewish friends from the other side of the ghetto. They are the only ones from the entire family who survive. After the war ends, Nina goes to medical school, meets her future husband, Jezry Einhorn; they immigrate to Sweden together. Later, they open a world-class cancer clinic there. Dr. Nina Einhorn, the film's main character, is the film's narrator. The director and scriptwriter is her daughter, Lena.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 9:00 pm. (GALLERY THEATRE)
Friday, November 9, 2007 at 9:00 pm. (PORTAGE THEATRE)
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 8:00 pm. (WILMETTE THEATRE)