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spotlight: MIT physicist turns filmmaker | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Watermarks, a documentary about athletes in Nazi-era Germany, opens today at the Coolidge Corner theater |
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"Watermarks," a documentary by Yaron Zilberman (S.B. physics; S.M. Operation Research and Finance '94), tells the story of seven Jewish women athletes who had expected to compete in the 1936 Olympics. The film focuses on the Austrian national swimming champions, members of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna, which was founded in 1909 in response to the Aryan Paragraph banning Jewish athletes from Austrian sports clubs. In the 1930s, its women's swimming team dominated the Austrian national competitions, but its members were forced to flee the country when Hitler annexed Austria in 1938 and Nazis shut down the club. For "Watermarks," Zilberman let these women speak for themselves and engineered a group swim for them in Vienna, their first reunion in 60 years. Today, the women are in their 80s and scattered around the world. All still swim daily. Watermarks won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, garnering one of the few standing ovations given in the Festival's history. "The film was extremely well received," said Sara Rubin, executive director of the festival. The film is at the Coolidge Corner Theater screening room February 18-24. See the Watermarks website for screening dates in other cities. |
 View the trailer for Watermarks
 Visit the Watermarks website |
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