My Name is Sara

My Name is Sara
My Name is Sara
Directed by	Steven Oritt
Written by	David Himmelstein
Produced by	Steven Oritt; Justyna Pawlak
Starring	Zuzanna Surowy; Eryk Lubos [pl]; Michalina Olszańska;
Cinematography	Marian Prokop [pl]
Edited by	Agnieszka Glinska
Music by	Łukasz Targosz
Production; companies	James Lucy Productions; Media Luna New Films; Watchout Studio
Release date	21 July 2019 (Giffoni Film Festival);
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English; Polish; Russian; German

My Name is Sara (also known as The Occupation^[1]) is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Oritt, starring Zuzanna Surowy, Eryk Lubos [pl] and Michalina Olszańska. It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.

Cast

Zuzanna Surowy as Sara
Eryk Lubos [pl] as Pavlo
Michalina Olszańska as Nadya
Ksawery Szlenkier [pl] as Avram
Aleksandra Pisula [pl] as Tsivia
Iwona Bielska [pl] as Vira Ivanenko
Paweł Królikowski [pl] as Ivan
Konrad Cichon as Moishe
Piotr Nerlewski [pl] as Grisha
Artur Sokolski as Danylo
Marcin Sokolski as Stepan
Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska [pl] as Pavlo's mother
Stanislaw Cywka as Boris
Izabela Dąbrowska as Marina
Lech Dyblik [pl] as Fedir Ivanenko
Radosław Kaim as German Soldier
Wiesław Komasa [pl] as Father Oleksa
Maciej Mikołajczyk [pl] as SS Officer
Bartosz Porczyk [pl] as Captain
Ryszard Ronczewski as Pavlo's Father

Release

The film premiered at the Giffoni Film Festival on 21 July 2019.^[2]

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."^[3]

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".^[4]

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."^[5]

References

^ "The Occupation, Feature Film, 2017-2019 | Crew United". crew-united.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
^ Finos, Arianna (13 July 2022). "'My name is Sara', la storia di una tredicenne ebrea parla ai ragazzi di oggi". la Repubblica. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (13 July 2019). "My Name is Sara". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ Goldstein, Gary (20 July 2022). "Review: The terror of the Holocaust resonates in the survival drama 'My Name Is Sara'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
^ Kenigsberg, Ben (13 July 2022). "'My Name Is Sara' Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

External links

My Name is Sara at IMDb
My Name is Sara at Rotten Tomatoes

[1] "The Occupation, Feature Film, 2017-2019 | Crew United". crew-united.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

[2] Finos, Arianna (13 July 2022). "'My name is Sara', la storia di una tredicenne ebrea parla ai ragazzi di oggi". la Repubblica. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

[3] Seitz, Matt Zoller (13 July 2019). "My Name is Sara". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

[4] Goldstein, Gary (20 July 2022). "Review: The terror of the Holocaust resonates in the survival drama 'My Name Is Sara'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

[5] Kenigsberg, Ben (13 July 2022). "'My Name Is Sara' Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.

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