Product Details

• Actors: n, a
• Directors: Michele Ohayon
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: WESTLAKE ENTERT
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00113VKA4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,415 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Not even Hollywood could invent a romance more extraordinary than this one...New York Daily News --New York Daily News

Product Description

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a compelling documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle 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 at a birthday party a 20 year old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack s pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the "girlfriend" in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars steal a pencil for me, December 29, 2007

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phyllis nichols-glazer "ishie108" (new york city) - See all my reviews

This review is from: STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (DVD)

Steal a Pencil for Me The move was so good that I had too get the book and read it too. I think it is a must see move. Just to let pepole know that the Holocaust did take place that 6,0000 Jewish people were killed in concentration camps in W.W.ll and this should and will not happien again.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great testament of the human spirit..., April 28, 2008

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Cullens_Girl (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (DVD)

This was a real interesting take on the Holocaust. It really shows the "realness" of the lives that it touched. Not everyone might agree with the background of the love story, but it is love none the less and shows basic human nature continued even through the dramatic and painful period of the Holocaust. Jaap and Ina's story is a great testament to the human spirit. The best part of the documentary was when he spoke to the school children as he and Ina walked the path in Westerbrook so many years later. So much can be learned and appreciated from his words. There are adult themes in this so I don't think it would be appropriate for younger audiences.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love amidst the Holcaust, April 10, 2008

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C. Baker (CT) - See all my reviews
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Steal a Pencil for Me is a wonderful documentary telling the compelling love story of 2 people caught in the roundup of Jews in Holland. It is quite suitable for children over age 11 to watch, in that it does not show torture or ovens, etc.