Fighter is a documentary film

Documentary film

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 about Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.Lustig was born in Prague...

 (1926 – 2011) and Jan Wiener (1920 - 2010), two Jews

Jews

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 who return to Europe to revisit the past.

A survivor of Theresienstadt

Theresienstadt concentration camp

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, Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

, and Buchenwald

Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,...

, Lustig is now a Prague

Prague

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-based journalist and author. The German-born Wiener escaped from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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, and joined the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 in Italy

Italy

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. The film retraces Weiner's escape route, and visits Theresienstadt (where Weiner's mother died), Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. It received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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, Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival

Newport International Film Festival

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, and the audience award at the Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival

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