Watermarks
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Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah ("The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among a community renowned for such great minds as Freud, Mahler and Zweig, but traditionally alien to physical recreation. Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Watermarks:

Hanni Lux
Judith Haspel
Anni Lampl
Elisheva Susz
Trude Hirschler
Greta Stanton

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Watermarks is the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah ("The Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among a community renowned for such great minds as Freud, Mahler and Zweig, but traditionally alien to physical recreation. Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic clubs, while achieving astonishing success in many diverse sports. In the 1930s Hakoah's best-known triumphs came from its women swimmers, who dominated national competitions in Austria. After the Anschluss, in 1938, the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers all managed to flee the country before the war broke out, thanks to an escape operation initiated by Hakoah's functionaries. Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the swimming team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth, femininity, and strengthens lifelong bonds. Told by the swimmers, now in their eighties, Watermarks is about a group of young girls with a passion to be the best.

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Boston Globe - 9/10 by Wesley MorrisIn the absolutely moving new documentary Watermarks, seven women in their 80s return to the Vienna swimming pool of their youth.
San Francisco Chronicle - 9/10 by G. Allen JohnsonIt seems that some stories, especially those that study human nature, are universal.
Boston Herald - 9/10 by James VerniereOne of the most amazing aspects of this film is how many of the octogenarian-plus swimmers have survived after first fleeing post-Anschluss Austria for the four corners of the world.
L.A. Weekly - 8/10 by Ella TaylorNot especially lively filmmaking, but Zilberman has unearthed some terrific footage of the club in its heyday.
Christian Science Monitor - 8/10 by David SterrittNot a great movie, but contains fascinating historical material.
New York Times - 8/10 by Stephen HoldenA moving documentary that approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
Globe and Mail - 7/10 by Liam LaceyModest, moving and intelligently assembled.
Village Voice - 7/10 by Laura SinagraThough Zilberman's affection for the women leads to some indulgent digression, the doc's low-key tone (and lack of the stock, timpani-backed Nazi iconography) throws certain anecdotes into powerful relief.
New York Post - 7/10 by Debra BirnbaumUltimately a moving, poignant tale about triumph in the face of the unthinkable.
Urban Cinefile - 6/10 by Urban Cinefile CriticsSurprisingly complex and moving, Yaron Silberman's vibrantly nostalgic documentary succeeds because it is about more than its surface subjects, young Jewish women who were champion swimmers in the 1930s whose lives were interrupted by the war.

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