Atlanta Jewish Film Festival – Remember This

Award-winning stage and screen actor David Strathairn delivers a spellbinding portrayal of humble wartime hero Jan Karski, whose urgent warnings of advancing genocide fell on deaf ears. A Catholic diplomat recruited by the Polish underground, Karski risked his life to deliver to Western allies among the first eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities, but to no avail. Strathairn masterfully conveys the tormented truthteller’s emotional and physical anguish, while deftly channeling over thirty other characters who inhabit Karski’s extraordinary biography. A minimalist visual aesthetic and abstract staging lay bare Strathairn’s virtuoso solo performance in all of its nuance and power, a timely lesson in moral courage and individual responsibility.