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A Clearing in the Fog (3:28)
Noah Harlan | New York, NY
My grandfather, Irving Sarot, was an Army surgeon in Europe during WWII. He directed a front line hospital for three years and in that time oversaw the treatment of tens of thousands of soldiers (allied and axis) and even had his hospital captured by the Nazis twice. He was chief surgeon at the fall of the Remagen bridge and the freeing of Buchnewald and the following experience happened around the time of the Battle of the Bulge in the Black Forest in Germany.
His hospital had been receiving wounded steadily for days and were treating both allied troops and some locals injured in shelling. A German officer showed up at the hospital, surrendering, with an injured young girl in his arms. He asked to see the head of the hospital and when my Grandfather appeared he explained that this was his daughter, he was a surrendering German officer - also a surgeon, she was injured and would the hospital please treat her. My grandfather, who maintained a strict policy of treating the most injured first, evaluated her and agreed to take her in for surgery right away. The German thanked him profusely and as he went to introduce himself my grandfather interrupted and said: "No, I know who you are. I was a medical student in Germany ten years ago and you were the doctor that supervised my rounds." After surgery, while the daughter recovered, my grandfather and this German officer sat outside during a lull and talked about what had happened in each of their lives during the past 10 years that led to them being on opposite sides of such a brutal war.
I would like to tell the story using the enormous number of original photographs my grandfather has of his hospital during the war, digitally manipulated to create a sense of motion and lyricism. This piece should be like a poem.
Noah Harlan is the co-founder of 2.1 Films, a New York production and development company through which he has produced or co-produced five feature films and numerous documentaries, television and branded content projects. Their latest film, Tehilim, is an Official Selection, In Competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Noah’s other features include: Apartment #5C (Cannes Film Festival 2002 – Director’s Fortnight), the multi-award winning Avanim (Berlin Film Festival 2004 – Panorama Special) and two films currently in post-production, the French feature Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu and the French-Japanese TV feature for Arté, La Pluie Des Prunes. After premiering as a Panorama Special selection at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, Avanim won the France Culture prize for Best Director at Cannes in 2005 was nominated for best actress at the European Film Awards. Upcoming projects include the American features Return, Red Hook and The End Of A Primitive.
Noah has appeared on numerous panels discussing International Co-productions. He is currently on the faculty of NYU teaching film production, has been a film festival juror and is a published author. A graduate of Williams College, he also studied media at The University of Melbourne (Australia) and acting camp; directing at The British Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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