Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

War and Love is a coming of age love story of two teenagers who happen to fall in love right before the creation of the Warsaw ghetto. The film shows their romantic story from beginning to end amidst the chaos and uprising of the turbulent times.  The film is adapted from a book the library has a copy of, Jack Eisner‘s The Survivor. Kyra Sedgwick, aka Mrs. Kevin Bacon, in her very first motion picture role, plays the young woman in the movie is portrayed. I did not find a trailer for the movie, thus as a teaser I posted a two minute segment online myself.

The film was shot in Budapest, Hungary in 1984, when I was sixteen. My grandmother was an extra in the movie and she managed to get me invited on the set as well. You cannot really see either of us, because we were in crowd scenes only, but I know exactly where I was in the few scenes where I should be visible. The working title of the movie was “The Children’s War.” I have been looking for a copy of the movie ever since I started to use the internet. Finally, when I learned few years ago that the final title of the movie was not the working title I managed to purchase a VHS copy from eBay. It never came out on DVD and I doubt it will.

Join us July 17, Thursday night at 7:30 to enjoy this 108 minutes long, PG13 movie and its recreation of pre-war Warsaw, young love and heroic struggles.