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New Orleans Film Society

Steal A Pencil for Me

Originally screened October 16, 2008

NETHERLANDS 94 min.

Synopsis

Steal A Pencil for Me is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Awards nominee Michele Ohayon about the power of love and the ability of humankind to rise above unimaginable suffering. 1943: Holland is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant first meets Ina; a 20 year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart at a birthday party. But Jack’s pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.