UK Premiere: Forgotten Transport To Estonia

Dir. Lukáš Pribyl I Czech Republic 2008 I 85 mins I Czech and German with English subtitles

Taking a unique perspective on the Holocaust, Forgotten Transport To Estonia reveals a remarkable human story behind the incomprehensible statistics.

On September 5th 1942, a thousand Czech Jews were transported to Estonia. Among them, a band of girls in their early teens formed a tightly-knit group that, along with a huge amount of luck, was the key to their survival. Too naïve to be terrified, too united in friendship to lose hope, these feisty teenage girls somehow navigated the most extraordinary circumstances – and lived to tell the tale. Most incredible of all, one girl seems to have fallen in love with a renowned SS brute and “humanised him”. The couple eventually fled together and were shot.

Masterfully weaving lively, eloquent testaments from the surivivors with the extensive archive, film-maker Lukáš Pribyl’s documentary is shocking, moving, sometimes uplifting, but never sentimental nor afraid of the truth.

Winner, One World Award 2009

Part of the New Czech Cinema Festival (11 – 25 November 2010) See www.czechcentre.org.uk for more details.

Screening with

All Done and Dusted
Dir. Vera Neubauer I UK I 2010 I 3 mins

Moving out of our family house I had to dispose of some of my possessions. A time of reflection.