“...an amazing film. It’s a great emotional story and also a beautiful, brilliant piece of journalism. So I hope everybody checks it out. A brilliant film.”
“UnBroken is a cinematic masterpiece not to be missed.”
“As a filmmaker, Beth Lane is wonderful here. I’ve seldom watched a documentary that flows so freely, nor a filmmaker that shares her emotion with the camera so.”
“Beth Lane's UnBroken is remarkably powerful; it touches the soul.”
“An incredibly moving film.”
“A powerful film about an extraordinary family.”
“Profound and remarkable. What a triumph.”
Awards:
Silver Winner - Human & Civil Rights: Documentary Film Anthem Awards
Best Documentary Premiere Heartland Int’l Film Festival
Audience Choice Best Doc Julien Dubuque Int’l FF
Audience Choice Best Doc River Run Int’l FF
Best First Time Filmmaker Hot Springs Women’s Int’l FF
Audience Choice Best Doc Berkshire Int’l FF
Madelyn’s Choice Award Rocky Mountain Women’s FF
Runner Up Audience Choice Best Doc Orcas Island FF
Best Holocaust Documentary Boca Int’l FF
About The Film
UnBroken chronicles the seven Weber siblings who evaded certain capture and death, and ultimately escaped Nazi Germany following their mother’s incarceration and murder at Auschwitz. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two years on their own in wartorn Germany.
Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they ‘always stay together,’ the children used their own cunning and instincts to fight through hunger, loneliness, rape, bombings and fear. Their journey culminates with a painful ultimatum, when, separated from their father, they are told that they must declare themselves as orphans in order to escape to a new life in America. Unbeknownst to them, this salvation would become what would finally tear them apart, not to be reunited for another 40 years.
Directed by Beth Lane, —the daughter of the youngest sibling—UnBroken offers a moving story of resilience, survival and hope. Premiering on Netflix this past April on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), the film quickly resonated with viewers, reaching the Top 10 in the U.S. within 24 hours and climbing to #5.
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