Markus imhoof biography of mahatma
2018 : Markus Imhoof.
The Boat Is Full
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Some films tell history; but there are a select few that actually make history.
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We are proud to bring back -- in a miraculously restored print -- Markus Imhoof’s landmark 1981 Swiss drama, The Boat is Full. This intimate, powerful, and ultimately devastating film dared to explode the myth of Switzerland’s neutrality toward Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, it has been nearly absent from American theaters for two decades. It is 1942.
Markus imhoof biography of mahatma
A ragtag group of Jewish refugees escaping from a German train stumbles upon a place of sanctuary and hope -- a farmhouse just across the Swiss border. Among them is a woman seeking to find her husband, an orphan, an old man, and a deserting German soldier -- all exiles, turning with hope of refuge to a hardened and fearful Swiss couple.
Their desperate light, and the shifts of fate brought about by their hosts’ denunciation and sudden repentance, creates one of the most powerful