My Name is Sara

My Name is Sara (also known as The Occupation[1]) is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Oritt, starring Zuzanna Surowy, Eryk Lubos and Michalina Olszańska. It is based on the life of Holocaust survivor Sara Góralnik.

My Name is Sara
Directed bySteven Oritt
Written byDavid Himmelstein
Produced bySteven Oritt
Justyna Pawlak
Starring
CinematographyMarian Prokop
Edited byAgnieszka Glinska
Music byŁukasz Targosz
Production
companies
James Lucy Productions
Media Luna New Films
Watchout Studio
Release date
21 July 2019 (Giffoni Film Festival)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Polish
Russian
German

Cast
  • Zuzanna Surowy as Sara
  • Eryk Lubos as Pavlo
  • Michalina Olszańska as Nadya
  • Ksawery Szlenkier as Avram
  • Aleksandra Pisula as Tsivia
  • Iwona Bielska as Vira Ivanenko
  • Paweł Królikowski as Ivan
  • Konrad Cichon as Moishe
  • Piotr Nerlewski as Grisha
  • Artur Sokolski as Danylo
  • Marcin Sokolski as Stepan
  • Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska as Pavlo's mother
  • Stanislaw Cywka as Boris
  • Izabela Dąbrowska as Marina
  • Lech Dyblik as Fedir Ivanenko
  • Radosław Kaim as German Soldier
  • Wiesław Komasa as Father Oleksa
  • Maciej Mikołajczyk as SS Officer
  • Bartosz Porczyk as Captain
  • Ryszard Ronczewski as Pavlo's Father

Release

The film premiered at the Giffoni Film Festival on 21 July 2019.[2]

Reception

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com rated the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it a "torment in cinematic form, made engrossing by its focus on a singular experience, and the performance that anchors it", writing that Surowy "has that gift of letting the surroundings and events absorb and reflect her."[3]

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "has its share of physically and emotionally tough moments", and called Surowy's performance "gripping, deeply textured and sympathetic".[4]

Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times called the film "intermittently powerful if somewhat stiff-jointed" and wrote that it can be "clunkily expository" and "frustratingly vague."[5]

References
  1. "The Occupation, Feature Film, 2017-2019 | Crew United". crew-united.com. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  2. Finos, Arianna (13 July 2022). "'My name is Sara', la storia di una tredicenne ebrea parla ai ragazzi di oggi". la Repubblica. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  3. Seitz, Matt Zoller (13 July 2019). "My Name is Sara". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  4. Goldstein, Gary (20 July 2022). "Review: The terror of the Holocaust resonates in the survival drama 'My Name Is Sara'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  5. Kenigsberg, Ben (13 July 2022). "'My Name Is Sara' Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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