Fugitive Pieces

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Actors: Rade Serbedzija , Stephen Dillane , Nina Dobrev , Rosamund Pike , Rachelle Lefevre , Ayelet Zurer , Ed Stoppard , Larissa Laskin , Diego Matamoros , Robbie Kay , Giorgos Karamihos , Sarah Orenstein , Themis Bazaka , Danai Skiadi

Director: Jeremy Podeswa

IMDB Rate: 6.9 out of 10 (800 votes)

Plot Summary:Middle aged Jakob Beer reflects on his life, this reflection which is all consuming. He is a Polish born and raised Jew. When he was an adolescent, his parents were shot dead and his sister Bella hauled away by the Nazis during World War II. Jakob witnessed these events from a hideout in their home. Running away, Jakob was found by Athos Roussos, a Greek national working on an archaeological project in Poland. Athos managed to smuggle Jakob out of Poland back to his native Greece. A few years later, Athos and Jakob moved to Canada where Athos began work as a teacher. Jakob has continual dreams about Bella, especially her piano playing but never knew Bellas ultimate fate. Jakobs reflections, especially the emotions stemming from his thoughts, lead to him becoming a writer of a successful book. His marriage to his first wife Alex, an outgoing and upbeat woman, fails because he cant get out of the somberness connected to his past at this time of his life. It isnt until he comes to understand the meaning of the dreams about Bella that Jakob can commit to a relationship. Meanwhile, Jakob has a lifelong friendship with his neighbors in Canada, a Jewish family who are also fighting demons of their past.