Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Steven Oritt’s Holocaust drama My Name Is Sara.
My Name Is Sara tells the true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife and discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding her own secret.
The screenplay was written by David Himmelstein and stars Zuzanna Surowy as the lead, Eryk Lubos, Michalina Olszanska and Paweł Królikowski.
Strand plans for a 2020 spring release.
My Name Is Sara was produced in association with the USC Shoah Foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994.
