ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
LOVE AND SORROW is the true story of four Jewish teenagers coming of age, falling in love, losing everything, and surviving the many brutal and harrowing events during the Holocaust.

SYNOPSIS
LOVE AND SORROW follows the experiences of two teenage girls who end up on divergent paths as their families are torn apart. At the same time, the two young men who are the love of their lives are faced with their own dramatic fight to survive. These four teenagers, ages 13 to 16 as the war begins, endure the loss of their families, slave labor camps, Auschwitz, and one of the young women ends up fighting the Nazis with the Polish resistance. However, through it all, their love, their will, and their hope for the future sustains them and eventually brings the four of them back together.

LOVE AND SORROW shows the perspective of these four survivors, including the staggering brutality of their Holocaust experience. At the same time, this film is a tender love story and an uplifting account of four teenagers who are able to survive against unbelievable odds Ultimately, LOVE AND SORROW traces an amazing journey full of tragedy, inspiration and love that unfolds during a heartbreaking period that must be remembered.

LOVE AND SORROW will make a powerful and poignant film because in addition to showing all the hardships that each of the four teenagers deals with, there are two love stories, and there is also, surprisingly, humor at times. In addition, one of the two women ends up fighting the Germans in the Polish resistance. However, as she is fighting the Nazis with the Polish underground it is imperative that none of the Poles know that she is Jewish. So, she is underground in the underground.

LOVE AND SORROW will tell this tragic and tender story of the holocaust to a new generation who know very little of this important time in our history.

PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature

DIRECTOR Joe Gantz
SCREENWRITER Joe Gantz
PRODUCER Joe Gantz
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Joe Gantz, Corine Gantz

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