Accross the Waters-CLOSING NIGHT
Director: Nicolo Donato
Drama / Denmark / 95 minutes / 2017 / Danish with English subtitles
Sunday, March 18 / 7:00 PM / Mandell JCC
Tickets: $25 ( Includes dessert reception)
Unsure of whom they can trust, a Jewish musician and his family make a frantic escape from
Nazi-occupied Denmark in Across the Waters, a gripping story of survival and rescue.
Enjoying the nightlife of 1943 Copenhagen, jazz guitarist Arne Itkin is seemingly immune to
the hardships of war, as the Danish government opts for a compliant relationship with Nazi
Germany. He is initially skeptical when his terrified wife Miriam hears rumors of the round-up
and deportation of Danish Jews. An overnight raid however, forces the couple to flee their
home with five-year-old son Jakob. Aided by a church pastor and underground resistance,
they set out on a journey for the fishing village of Gilleleje, where refugees await passage to
Sweden by boat. Amidst lurking danger from the Gestapo and their collaborators, the family
puts its fate in the hands of strangers whose allegiance and motives are not always clear.
Based on true events, Across the Waters is directed and co-written by Nicolo Donato, whose
own grandfather was among the courageous Danish fisherman to ferry war refugees to safety.