Interview: Treasure Stars Stephen Fry & Lena Dunham By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Treasure stars and about the . Bleecker Street’s film focuses on a father and daughter traveling to Poland for the first time since the father survived the Holocaust. The -directed film is now playing nationwide.
“A father-daughter road trip set in 1990s Poland, Treasure follows Ruth (Dunham), an American music journalist, and her father, Edek (Fry), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland,” says the synopsis for Julia von Heinz’s movie. “While Ruth is eager to make sense of her family’s past, Edek embarks on the trip with his own agenda. This emotional, funny culture clash of two New Yorkers exploring post-socialist Poland is a powerful example of how reconnecting with family and the past can be an unexpected treasure.
” : You’ve absolutely put your finger on it, I think. I had the experience of my own grandfather and other members of my mother’s side of the family who were European Jewish and who’d obviously, by definition, survived. The armor, or the wall as you put it, is a mixture of humor.
Just flipping things away with a joke or just simply ignoring it. It is understandable, as you also said, because you imagine going through that experience and then you arrive in America and, you literally, are in the land of freedom, there’s Lady Liberty when you arrive and all the cliches of Ellis Island, but you bring up a, a da.
