Hartford Jewish Film Festival: Hartford Premiere: The Origin of Violence

 

French with English subtitles, France, 2016

Drama, 110 minutes

Director: Elie Chouraqui

 

When Nathan Fabre, a French Catholic teacher visits Buchenwald, he sees a picture of a prisoner who is the spitting image of his father. Haunted by the picture, he returns to France and eventually unravels decades of long-buried, painful family secrets.

 

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