Steal a Pencil for Me

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party - a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the "girlfriend" in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war. Jack: "I'm a very special Holocaust survivor

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 160934
  • Status Released
  • Released United States of America March 10, 2007 (South by Southwest Film Festival) Germany February 14, 2008 (Berlin International Film Festival) Brazil October 17, 2008 (São Paulo International Film Festival) Japan March 21, 2010 (TV premiere)
  • Runtime 94 minutes
  • Genres Documentary Romance
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Distributor Seventh Art Releasing Red Envelope Entertainment
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  • Box Office Worldwide $18,918 US $18,918
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