Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead.
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Tuesday 27 February 2007

What the Press Say About The Book and the Film

The proof of the pudding they say, is in the eating, and the critical response to the book since first publication has been very supportive. Here are just a few of the comments that Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead has received.

The Film

"Very powerful, very moving... an extremely strong piece of work" Geoffrey MacNab of The Guardian

"Touching, funny, emotional, covering many important issues" John Hopewell of Variety

"A film I shall never forget" John Daly, Producer of Platoon and The Last Emporer

The Book

"written with the narrative skill of a professional, this book became an international bestseller..." (The Times)

"a book of the 'can't put down kind'...to be treasured." (Variety)

"tragic, humorous...powerful, vivid, authentic." (The Jewish Chronicle)

"a most remarkable man, a most enthralling book!" (The Observer)

"eye-opening...remarkable. Despite the most dismal circumstances, he never portrays himself as a victim. ***** out of 5*s!" (R Chapulina, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer)

Monday 12 February 2007

PUNTO de VISTA DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, PAMPLONA, SPAIN


Although Pamplona is slightly better know for its running bulls than its cutting edge new documentary festival, I call upon everyone who loves animals to flock to the city for the film event and thereby save the lives of those frightened beasts who are sacrificed each summer (and the odd drunken tourist whom they gore now and then). Hopefully we can make the Pamplona film run the hot ticket event.

Dana and I had a lovely sojourn during this impeccably-managed event in the old city. I was touched, and should not have been surprised as a historian, by the fact that Spanish and Basque people take to the film because they know all too well the horrible legacy of totalitarian terror in the last century in their civil war and Franco’s repression. I guess this is why the film won the Audience Award (Premio del Publico)

This town has almost no Jewish population, but in another moving moment, two middle-aged Jewish brothers come over after the show. Their father only survived the war by an irony – a volunteer for the Republican forces from France, he was incarcerated by in a Spanish prison camp, thus surviving the war. Franco did not send Jews back to the Nazis, unlike the occupied French.

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