About: The Film
Valerie's Orchard is a compelling new docudrama about an 88 year old Hungarian lady, now living in Jerusalem, who sixty years ago miraculously survived the
Nazi Holocaust.
Contemporary in style, the film observes director Nick Breakspear as he journeys to meet this astonishing lady recording the impact she has had on his life.
Try and imagine Valerie at the tender age of twenty four years old married only five days before the unbelievable separation took place; followed by transportation to the hellhole – Auschwitz Birkenau- concluding with a journey on the infamous 'Death March' from where she finally makes her incredible escape.
Filmed on location in Israel and England, this amazing story depicts Valerie’s experience through her unique and original drawings of olive trees.
These drawings trace family roots with individual branches telling their own stories from those tortured pages of our collective history.
A very sobering thought as we consider the longevity of these survivors, whose days grow increasingly short.
So it is our privilege and duty as the next generation to make sure we glean from their fading experience whilst there is still time.
If we forget them, who will remember us?
Complete with original Breakspear soundtrack, this remarkable film weaves its way to an unexpected and climactic finale.
Film Production
Nick Breakspear
Nick's Music
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