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help us tell our children about what
happened to our family. It's cathartic
for me to know that people who suf-
fered and died will not be forgotten."
Another Oscar-nominated movie,
Divided We Fall, in the foreign film
category, also revolves around ordinary
citizens who agonize over whether to
hide a Jew during the Shoah. In the
movie, which has a slightly sarcastic
edge, David Wiener (Csongor Kassai)
escapes from a concentration camp
and appeals to his old neighbors for
help, with unexpected results.
The film is based on a true story
that intrigued Catholic director Jan
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One boy jumped
into the water to
elude the gunfire;
little Lajos was not
so lucky.

Jarchovsky the minute they heard it
some years ago.
"These people pretended to be Nazis
to hide the fact that they were hiding
Jews," said Hrebejk, 33, speaking via a
translator during a telephone inter-
view. "The result, ironically, is that
they were reviled as collaborators by all
their neighbors."
While some viewers have questioned
whether the humor in the film trivial-
izes the Shoah (the same controversy
faced by Roberto Benigni's tragicome-
dy Life is Beautifid), Hrebejk insists
the movie is not so much about the
Holocaust as the vagaries of human
nature.
A character who is a "Righteous
Christian" is a self-pitying grump. A
Nazi collaborator is a mentsh. A
German official elicits sympathy after
his sons are killed in the war.
"I love that viewers must change
their minds several times about how
they feel about the characters," said
Hrebejk, who is known for a couple of
Czech hit comedies and counts Woody
Allen among his favorite directors.
"The film aims to explore how, in
stressful situations, normal decency
becomes heroism and people who are
cowards can sometimes find such
decency within themselves. To me a
hero is not someone who is brave. It is
someone who is able to bring out the
humanity within himself."

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