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Forgiveness is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mariusz Kotowski released in USA on 26 april 2008 with Juli Erickson
Forgiveness (2008)
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Add to a movie listForgiveness is a 2008 American dramatic Holocaust film written and directed by Polish-American director Mariusz Kotowski, with a screenplay by Allan Knee. The film is marked as being the director's first feature-length film.
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A Roman Catholic child Apollonia Kowalski (Juli Erickson) and a Jewish child Esther Blumenfeld (Dell Aldrich), were childhood best friends in 1940's Poland. The two girls were separated when Esther was taken away to a Nazi concentration camp. When the war ended, both girls separately emigrated to the United States with their families. They remained separated thereafter.Actors
Juli Erickson
(Apollonia)
Shelley Calene-Black
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