Directed by Paul Mazursky
Ron Silver, Lena Olin
Tamara: Men love virgins. If every man had his way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.
Herman has a complicated life. He is married to Yadwiga, the gentile servant who saved his life by hiding him in a hayloft in Poland during the war. He is in love with the passionate Masha, a fellow holocaust survivor. And he is now confronted with Tamara, the wife who had presumably died in Hitler’s camps. Anjelica Huston’s performance as Tamara, the wisest and most well-grounded of Herman’s women, garnered her an academy award nomination for best actress in a supporting role, along with Lena Olin as Masha. Though the Holocaust is very present in this film it remains a comedy, albeit a dark one, about love, survival, and the inescapable past.
CinemaLit Films
