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Fighter
Directed by
Amir Bar-Lev
Not Rated
2000
1h 31m
Documentary
7.4
96%
77%
5.8
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Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev follows two Czech Holocaust survivors, Jan Weiner and Arnost Lustig, as they revisit Terezin, a labor camp where Arnost was interned for five years and Jan's mother was murdered.
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Cast of Fighter
Arnošt Lustig
Himself
Jan Wiener
Himself
Amir Bar-Lev
Director / Producer / Editor
Jonathan Crosby
Producer
Alex Mamlet
Producer
Peter Broderick
Executive Producer
Gary Keith Griffin
Director Of Photography
David Collier
Director Of Photography
Justin Schein
Director Of Photography
Petr Cikhart
Sound Recordist
Fighter Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
No larger aspect of what is in this film can be new to us; but seeing it in this old-friends perspective gives all of it, familiar and new, a novel effect.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Enthralling.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What unfolds onscreen is remarkable: The passions and arguments of the past are resurrected in the present.
Nitrate Online
Dan Lybarger
Bar-Lev's intimacy with his subjects is remarkable, and it allows him to reveal how these men have managed to become and remain friends.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Reminds us that different people react to madness -- in this case, the Holocaust -- in different ways.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Spending time with these guys is an invigorating treat.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Even if these guys hadn't each gone through so much strife and real tragedy in their life, they're just interesting right now to see them going back and forth.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Less a document of wartime experience than of the mentality one needs to maintain in order to be a fighter, and the danger of attacking, however benignly, cherished beliefs.
Kansas City Star
Robert W. Butler
It's a rarity these days: a film that will leave you thinking.
Boxoffice Magazine
Michael Tunison
The fight and its aftermath don't provide an especially satisfying conclusion to the piece.
IFilm
Dave White
Even though I'm not sure it should have even been made, the final product is at least emotionally impressive and absolutely debate inspiring.
New Times
Andy Klein
Not surprisingly, it's moving; but it's also endlessly engaging, uproariously funny at moments, informative, and eventually touching in ways one might not have expected.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
A tale of a remarkable friendship between two wise, witty men.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Even when the bickering diminishes the impact of the story, Wiener himself makes Fighter another interesting story to come out of World War II atrocities.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
A fascinating real-life narrative documentary of two men who become friends in America after having taken two different paths to survive the Holocaust that consumed the rest of their families.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Shapes up as one of the great documentaries of this year, or any other.
Newsday
John Anderson
Historically and emotionally potent -- as well as the funniest movie of the summer, thanks mostly to Lustig's understated but pungent wit.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
It ponders in a refreshingly original way unanswerable questions about memory, imagination, history and that elusive thing we call truth.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Powerful, provocative and often surprisingly funny.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Thanks to Lustig, the film has a generosity and antic humor.
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