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Fugitive Pieces (15)

• Director: Jeremy Podeswa
• Genre: Romantic War Drama
• Starring: Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike, Rade Sherbedgia & Ayelet Zurer
• Country: Canada, Greece
• Language: English
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• Running time: 106 mins
• Release date: 29 May 2009
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Synopsis

Based on the beloved best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels

A powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and liberation. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Years later, having moved to Canada, the grownup Jakob has

become a writer struggling to articulate his childhood horrors, haunted by the mystery of his sister's fate. But, after his troubled emotions lead to the break-up of his marriage to the free-spirited Alex, Jakob must exorcise the ghosts of his past if he is to close a traumatic chapter of his life and find beauty in the present.