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Jan Tenhaven

By Jan Tenhaven

On 13, Jan 2022 | In | By Jan Tenhaven

Adam & Ida

1st place in the ecumenical media award “Andere Zeiten”

“Touching and multi-layered documentary” (HÖRZU)

“A story that reflects the 20th century. (…) Worth watching.” (FAZ)

“Adam & Ida is one of the outstanding films of the festival… A successful film also about the questions: What is identity? Who am I? Am I in the real life?” (rbb – Studio 3)

“Reduced and smart interview setting.” (Tagesspiegel)

“With its formally rigorous narrative techniques and the two engaging characters Adam and Ida, the documentary succeeds in showing the arduous healing process from the horrors of the Holocaust in the touching togetherness of the finally reunited twins.
finally reunited twins. (…) The film manages to unfold an enormous emotional range and illustrates the fate of many through two survivors of the Holocaust, of whom there are not many left..” (TAZ)

“Adam and Ida is a deeply moving life story. It tells of loss and pain, of belonging and love.” (Münchener Merkur)

“The touching documentary by Jan Tenhaven lets the twins tell their story 25 years later, asks whether their hopes have been fulfilled by the reunion, and uses discreet animation to illustrate their memories. In doing so, he shows respect for the two protagonists as well as for the fates of their murdered family members and tells of a lifetime of living with the Holocaust trauma.” (Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung)

For the first time in their lives, Adam and Ida Paluch tell their life story to a German film crew. It is an incredible story about a lifelong search for identity, about loss and belonging – told with the help of artistic animations that illustrate the often only vague memories of the Jewish twins.