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My Name is Sara (also known as The Occupation) is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Oritt, starring Zuzanna Surowy, Eryk Lubos and Michalina Olszańska. It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.
Cast
Zuzanna Surowy as Sara
Eryk Lubos as Pavlo
Michalina Olszańska as Nadya
Ksawery Szlenkier as Avram
Aleksandra Pisula as Tsivia
Iwona Bielska as Vira Ivanenko
Paweł Królikowski as Ivan
Konrad Cichon as Moishe
Piotr Nerlewski as Grisha
Artur Sokolski as Danylo
Marcin Sokolski as Stepan
Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska as Pavlo's mother
Stanislaw Cywka as Boris
Izabela Dąbrowska as Marina
Lech Dyblik as Fedir Ivanenko
Radosław Kaim as German Soldier
Wiesław Komasa as Father Oleksa
Maciej Mikołajczyk as SS Officer
Bartosz Porczyk as Captain
Ryszard Ronczewski as Pavlo's Father
Release
The film premiered at the Giffoni Film Festival on 21 July 2019.
Reception
Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it a "torment in cinematic form, made engrossing by its focus on a singular experience, and the performance that anchors it", writing that Surowy "has that gift of letting the surroundings and events absorb and reflect her."
Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "has its share of physically and emotionally tough moments", and called Surowy's performance "gripping, deeply textured and sympathetic".
Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times called the film "intermittently powerful if somewhat stiff-jointed" and wrote that it can be "clunkily expository" and "frustratingly vague."
References
External links
My Name is Sara at IMDb
My Name is Sara at Rotten Tomatoes