The Oscar-winning director has turned the real-life story of a boxer haunted by guilt over fighting fellow Jews in Auschwitz into a movie about post-traumatic stress disorder.
, which tells the true story of Harry Haft, a boxer broken by being forced by an SS Nazi officer to fight fellow Jews in Auschwitz, only to narrowly escape to America and box Rocky Marciano as a pro to recapture lost love.
his latest directing gig follows reading a scene in the movie’s original script that triggered a vivid childhood memory from his time growing up in Baltimore of Russian Jewish descent. “I thought this film is actually about post-traumatic stress disorder as we would now call it,” Levinson says ahead of the Ben Foster-starrer having a gala world premiere at the
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