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Dear Mr. Waldman

Wednesday, April 2 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC

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This coming-of-age film beautifully captures the peculiarities of growing up amid the emotional wreckage of the Holocaust in midcentury Tel Aviv. The fragile equilibrium of Hilik’s new life in Israel is disturbed when his father convinces himself that his son from his first marriage didn’t actually die in Auschwitz, but miraculously escaped to America.

Nominated for three Ophir Awards, 2006

"Well-written and superbly acted, Dear Mr. Waldman treads ground that will be familiar to anyone" -Jerusalem Post

Director: Hanan Peled
Country: Israel
Year: 2006
Length: 90 minutes
Format: Beta Sp
Language: Hebrew with English subtitles