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At the end of MIT grad Yaron Zilberman’s intimate, affecting documentary, the Austrian-born women swimmers of the Jewish sports club Hakoah Vienna, all in their 80s, return to Vienna for a swim in the same pool they had trained in before the Nazis abolished the club and drove them into exile 65 years ago. Zilberman follows eight women of Hakoah, who are spread from LA to London to Tel Aviv, interspersing present-day interviews with footage and photographs of 1930s swim meets. The vitality, strength, and youthful exuberance of the ’30s-era photos remain evident, and indeed it’s the women’s stories more than the historical facts that drive the film, making for an atypical angle on the Holocaust. Most remarkable is the pure joy the swimmers feel for their sport and one another set against the backdrop of Hitler’s horror. When champion Judith Deutsch refused to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Austrian Sports Association banned her from all future competition and erased her records from the books. But the delight the women express at reuniting — they project a gray-haired glow, joking about sex, laughing like teenagers — triumphs over the grim weight of their history. (84 minutes)

BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN

Issue Date: February 18 - 24, 2005
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