Screening of the film "Broken Dreams" and Q&A session with the director T. Magierski
07.06.2021
As part of the Jewish Culture Festival in Copenhagen, on 6th June 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Copenhagen organized the screening of the film "Broken Dreams" directed by Tomasz Magierski.
The film was inspired by the diary of a Polish Jewish teenager Renia Spiegel, who lived in Przemyśl with her younger sister Ariana during World War II. In diaries kept in 1939-42, Renia described everyday life during the Soviet and Nazi occupation, fears during the creation of the ghetto in Przemyśl and bombing raids. She also wrote about matters important to a young girl - about school, friendships and love. In the film, fragments of Renia's diaries are intertwined with the narrative of Elżbieta (Ariana) Bellak, who managed to survive the Holocaust. Before the war, Ariana appeared in the theater and in films and she was called the "Polish Shirley Temple".
After the screening, Mr. Tomasz Magierski told the audience about how he discovered Renia's diaries, about his work on the film and the first edition of the diaries, as well as about the fate of the film's heroes who managed to survive the war.
Renia's diaries have been translated into 26 languages, among others into Danish -"Renias dagbog - En ung piges skæbne i skyggen af Holocaust”.
