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Fugitive Pieces is a novel by the Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels. The story is divided into two sections. The first centers around Jakob Beer, a Polish Holocaust survivor, while the second involves a man named Ben, the son of two Holocaust survivors.
- Anne Michaels
- 1996
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Jeremy Podeswa, who also adapted the film from the novel of the same name written by Anne Michaels. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, who is orphaned in Poland during World War II and is saved by a Greek archeologist.
Jun 12, 2008 · A film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel about a Holocaust survivor's obsession with the past and his quest for love. The film explores memory, grief, and healing through the characters' stories and the cinematography.
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Fugitive Pieces tells the story of Jakob, a Polish Jewish child, and Holocaust survivor; Athos, a Greek archeologist; and Ben (the Hebrew for son, not short for Benjamin), a poet and child of Holocaust survivors.
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- 1996
- Anne Michaels
- Paperback
Fugitive Pieces R 2007 1h 48m Drama List 68% Tomatometer 76 Reviews 64% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings A writer (Stephen Dillane) has trouble moving past his haunting memories of the Holocaust.
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- Jeremy Podeswa
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- Stephen Dillane
A film adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel about a Polish Jew who escapes from Nazi-occupied Poland and struggles with his past and present. The plot follows his childhood, his friendship with a Greek man, his marriage, and his writing career.
As a young boy during the Second World War, Jakob Beer is rescued from the mud in Poland by an unlikely saviour, the scientist Athos Roussos, and he is taken to Greece, then, at war’s end, to Toronto. It is here that his loss gradually surfaces, as does the haunting question of his sister’s fate.
