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SPOTLIGHT | 'THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES'

Director deals with complex moral themes

Vadim Perelman, director of the new film The Life Before Her Eyes, is a Ukrainian Jew who fled the old Soviet Union when he was 14, eventually landing in Canada. That immigrant experience colored Perelman's first film, the acclaimed House of Sand And Fog. full story >

SPOTLIGHT | 'THE COUNTERFEITERS'

Film tells emotional Nazi-era story

From left to right: Karl Markovics as Salomon Sorowitsch, Devid Striesow as Friedrich Herzog and Martin Brambach as Holst. Photo by Jat Jurgen Olczyk © Beta Film GmbH, courtesy Sony Pictures Classics

The Oscar-winning historical drama The Counterfeiters is based on events surrounding a Nazi plan to use concentration camp inmates to counterfeit Allied currency, an operation to be led by a Jewish master counterfeiter. full story >

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