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Fugitive Pieces (15)

  • Consumer Advice: Contains moderate sex
  • Run time: 1 hour 46 mins
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release date: 29th May 2009

Plot Synopsis

A powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and liberation.

The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Years later, having moved to Canada, the grownup Jakob has become a writer struggling to articulate his childhood horrors, haunted by the mystery of his sister's fate. But after his troubled emotions lead to the break-up of his marriage to the free-spirited Alex. Jakob must exorcise the ghosts of his past if he is to close a traumatic chapter of his life and find beauty in the present.