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- 2005
- Castle Hill Productions
- 1 h 23 m
- 2005
- Castle Hill Productions
- 1 h 23 m
Summary This documentary tells the dramatic story of how Bulgarian Christians and Muslims saved 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
Directed By: Jacky Comforty
Written By: Lisa Comforty, Jacky Comforty
- 2005
- Castle Hill Productions
- 1 h 23 m
- 2005
- Castle Hill Productions
- 1 h 23 m
The Optimists
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Summary This documentary tells the dramatic story of how Bulgarian Christians and Muslims saved 50,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
Directed By: Jacky Comforty
Written By: Lisa Comforty, Jacky Comforty
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
66
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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This is the rare Holocaust documentary that ends on an optimistic note, and Comforty's film might even help reinforce one's faith in humankind.
The Optimists is filled with first-person testimony from Jews who were saved and non-Jews who saved them, people like Rubin Dimitrov, a baker who hid Jews in his ovens and says simply, "a true human being is obliged to help." As a rescued Jew says with emotion at the film's conclusion, "to be a Bulgarian is to be a mensch."
The director, who also served as producer along with Lisa Comforty, his wife, spent 12 years compiling the archival clips and photographs that make up this compact and elegant film.
Questionable as a theory of history, but as a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.
Explores another courageous, little-known chapter in the saga of resistance and heroics during World War II.
In the end, this admirably broadens our knowledge of the era but doesn't much deepen it.
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Production Company
Comforty Media Concepts
Release Date Oct 21, 2005
Duration 1 h 23 m
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Website
http://theoptimists.com/
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
