Previewed at the Rome Film Fest, the beautiful Hometown will arrive at the cinema on January 25, which brings childhood friends Roman Polanski and Ryszard Horowitz back to Krakow after decades of exile.
There’s a small, unmissable jewel that arrives at the cinema on January 25th with Vision Distribution. Let’s talk about the documentary Hometown – Memory Lane, produced by Eliseo Cinema with KRK, which we previewed and reviewed at the last Rome Film Fest. In the film by two Polish directors, Mateusz Kudla e Anna Kokoska Romer, after many years two childhood friends find themselves in their native Krakow, separated by war and persecution and since then remained exiles. Today the two are a world-famous director, Roman Polanski89, who lives in Paris, and an equally famous photographer, Richard Horowitz, a few years younger, who lives in New York and meet again for this project. Together, the two retrace the paths of their first memories and revive their friendship, even participating in forgotten rituals, such as standing in line for a hamburger, in a festive and amused atmosphere, in the clip we present to you.
Hometown – The road of memories: the value of testimony
In the film, moving and funny like many true stories, Roman Polanski and Ryszard Horowitz return to the houses where they lived with their respective families and for a time even together, they recall great pains, separations, scenes of war and persecution. Tireless Polanski, who often substitutes for directors and corrects his friend when his memories differ from his. It excites and amuses hearing the director of Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, a well-known polyglot, speak his native language and above all it makes us think of how important, today more than ever, the memory of what he was and sharing about him. This is the official plot of Howetown:
“Roman Polanski and Ryszard Horowitz returned to Poland to share the most personal memories of their childhood and youth. Walking the streets of Krakow, they retrace the past and recall the difficult moments of their lives, during the Holocaust, when they met in the Jewish ghetto built by the Nazis. They tell a story of survival – how Horowitz became one of the youngest children rescued by Oskar Schindler and how Polanski hid in a small village after escaping the ghetto, in the home of a poor peasant family. they have always been different – their passion has kept them together. They skipped school to go to the cinema, developed their first photographs and fell in love with art. In the sad reality of communist Poland, against the wishes of the governments, they studied the great artists, discovered the beauty of jazz and started thinking about leaving the country.Since Polanski left Cr had traveled to film and Horowitz fled to New York to pursue his career in photography, they never had the chance to see each other again in Poland. Now, after many years, they return to see all the places that made them who they are today.”
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