Watermarks
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Yaron Zilberman
Amir Ben-zion
Tully Chen
Mojdeh Danial
Ronen Dorfan
Tom Hurwitz
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. Hakoah (meaning "Strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes. Its founders were eager to popularize sport among a community renowned for such great minds as Freud, Mahler and Zweig--but traditionally alien to physical recreation. Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe's biggest athletic clubs, while achieving astonishing success in many diverse sports. In the 1930s Hakoah's best-known triumphs came from its women swimmers, who dominated national competitions in Austria. After the Anschluss, in 1938, the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers all managed to flee the country before the war broke out, thanks to an escape operation. Sixty-five years later, director Yaron Zilberman meets the members of the swimming team in their homes around the world, and arranges for them to have a reunion in their old swimming pool in Vienna, a journey that evokes memories of youth, femininity, and strengthens lifelong bonds. Told by the swimmers, now in their eighties, the chronicle is about a group of young girls with a passion to be the best. It is the saga of seven outstanding athletes who still swim daily as they age with grace.
Director
Yaron Zilberman
Crew
Amir Ben-zion
Tully Chen
Mojdeh Danial
Ronen Dorfan
Tom Hurwitz
Shlomo Israel
Yonatan Israel
Yonatan Israel
Ruben Korenfeld
Philippa Kowarsky
Paul Rozenberg
Yuval Shar
Yaron Zilberman
Yaron Zilberman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Honorable mention at the 2004 Viennale International Film Festival
Winner of a cinematography award at the 2004 Jerusalem Film Festival.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2004 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2004
Released in United States April 1, 2005
Released in United States January 2005
Released in United States on Video December 6, 2005
Released in United States Winter January 21, 2005
Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (Non-Fiction) January 6-17, 2005.
Shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2004.
Shown at the Viennale International Film Festival 2004.
Scheduled to air in the USA on Cinemax Network October 24, 2005 as part of the "Cinemax Reel Life" series.
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2004.)
Released in United States 2004 (Shown at the Viennale International Film Festival 2004.)
Released in United States January 2005 (Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (Non-Fiction) January 6-17, 2005.)
Released in United States Winter January 21, 2005 (NY)
Released in United States April 1, 2005 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video December 6, 2005
