In the Holocaust drama “My name is Sarah,” The Jewish girl hides with a Ukrainian farmer and works as a nanny in exchange for food and shelter. Sarah (Zuzanna Slowi) disguised as her Gentile tells her farmer Pablo (Erik Rubos) and his wife Nadia (Miharina Orzanska) her name is Magna, and she has a problem. She said she had escaped from her family life.
Pablo, especially Nadia, seems to be skeptical of her story and lack of treatises. Nadia repeatedly tests Sarah. She asks her to cross herself, feeds her pork, and summons her to help her boy in her Christian prayer. This is relatively easy for Sarah to do, for reasons that will be revealed later. However, even if the household warms gently to Sarah, the risk of discovery remains for nearly two years.
This movie is sharp to explain that Sarah is by no means completely safe and that improvisation is needed over and over again to survive. Anti-Semitism is around her, except for the occupied Nazis. The balance between her leverage and her loyalty becomes even more complicated when she finds Nadia having an affair.
Directed by Stephen Olit and directed by David Himmelstein, this film is a adaptation of some of the real films. Sara Shapiro’s wartime experienceBorn in Sarah Goralnick, People who died in 2018.. The suspense and power of her story is conveyed, but the film is clumsy and descriptive, and the tension between Sarah and Pablo is frustratingly vague. Moreover, despite the presence of Polish, Russian and German elsewhere in the film, having Ukrainians speak English to each other distracts from verisimilitude.
My name is Sara
Unrated. English, Polish, German, Russian, with subtitles. Execution time: 1 hour 51 minutes. At the theater.
