Featuring KLAUS WOWEREIT, the Governing Mayor of Berlin

“UPLIFTING AND REMARKABLE…A GREAT LESSON IN THE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTABILITY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.”
- Alan Blumenfeld, Actor (Mad Men, Arrested Development, CSI – Crime Scene Investigation)

“THE NARRATIVE OF THE STORY HAS AN UNDOUBTED UNIVERSALITY…AMAZING…EXCEPTIONAL.”
- Graeme Fife, playwright, broadcaster, novelist (The Beautiful Machine, Arthur The King)

“MOVING, COMPLETELY RIVETING. THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS ARE FANTASTIC.”

- Mark Kidel, Director (Elvis Costello, A Journey With Peter Sellars)

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Director: Nigel Dick
Runtime: 81 min. 
Production Year: 2014
Language Tracks: English
Rating: NR
DVDCAT#: PRDVD2512
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GENRES: Holocaust, Jewish Studies, American Studies

SYNOPSIS
As Kastle went through a rebellious phase of punk rock, shaved her head into a Mohawk and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in journalism, she unknowingly touched a nerve of her father’s deepest fears of persecution and separation anxiety.

The documentary Berlin Calling follows Kastle on a journey of discovery, through five cities – Berlin, Prague, Paris, Los Angeles and Houston - to uncover what happened to her father during his childhood in the dark days of Berlin and the Holocaust. We see Kastle open the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family and hear her father’s firsthand account of being a child under Hitler’s oppression of the Jews and his time in a concentration camp.

In her research, Kastle also makes a surprising discovery -­‐ the fate of a family member who disappeared in the early days of persecution.

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