THE MEMORY THIEF
A film by Gil Kofman, USA, 2007, 94´.
Original version with Portuguese subtitles.
Lukas is a lost youth who lives in Los Angeles; he tries to bury his problems in the tedious routine of a tollbooth attendant. A sudden and unexpected meeting with a Holocaust survivor opens to him a new world and an identity that he embraces with frightening intensity: that of World War II victim Jews. A non-Jew, Lukas begins to act his recently found obsession.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria and grew in Kenya and New York. He graduated in physics and also studied the cinema and the theater; he has produced a number of plays. This is his first feature film.
http://www.memorythiefmovie.com/
A film by Gil Kofman, USA, 2007, 94´.
Original version with Portuguese subtitles.
Lukas is a lost youth who lives in Los Angeles; he tries to bury his problems in the tedious routine of a tollbooth attendant. A sudden and unexpected meeting with a Holocaust survivor opens to him a new world and an identity that he embraces with frightening intensity: that of World War II victim Jews. A non-Jew, Lukas begins to act his recently found obsession.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gil Kofman was born in Nigeria and grew in Kenya and New York. He graduated in physics and also studied the cinema and the theater; he has produced a number of plays. This is his first feature film.
http://www.memorythiefmovie.com/