Red Trees

Name: Red Trees
Genre: Documentary

United Kingdom · 2017
1h 27m
Director Marina Willer
Starring Tim Pigott-Smith
Genre Documentary

Award-winning filmmaker Marina Willer creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. The film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father, Alfred.

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Village Voice by Craig D. Lindsey

In the end, this relentlessly scenic travelogue/valentine is Willer literally giving her old man peace of mind.

Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

Cinematically and emotionally it’s a mixed bag, a slow-moving visual treatise and occasional vanity piece that requires — but doesn’t always earn — our indulgence.

The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

Willer’s essay film is obviously a cathartic experience, her documenting a family history that transcends the personal towards the universal

Slant Magazine by Keith Watson

The banality of Marina Willer’s voiceover only goes to prove the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words.

The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

The sad truth is that we’ve heard countless harrowing stories of the Holocaust, and this one, for the most part, isn’t presented in a way that makes it indelible or urgent.