TRAIN TO ZAKOPANE
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In Train to Zakopané, a successful young Russian businessman meets a captivating nurse in the Polish army on a train-trip to Warsaw and is faced with a life-changing dilemma when he discovers that the nurse he is drawn to – and who is enchanted by him – is fiercely anti-Semitic.
Will he reveal to her he is Jewish? Will he move toward love, or will he move toward revenge?
REVIEWS
Bravo to Tanna Frederick for tackling the totally unsympathetic role of Katia Wampusyk, the anti-Semitic nurse who falls in love with the stranger on the train Semyon Sapir, who just happens to be a Jew she can’t smell right off. Frederick’s Katia’s so hateful, so ignorant, so unaware; Frederick succeeds in making it impossible to care, to be entertained, to be amused by her girlish flirtations with the man whose religion she detests.
…The entire cast, that also includes Kelly Desarla (Marousia Petranko) and Jeff Elam (Dr. Nahum Gruenbaum), give strong performances under the direction of Gary Imhoff.
…It is a beautiful, heart rending romance, excellently acted, especially by the two leads and skillfully directed by Gary Imhoff.
…Train To Zakopane is a bit talky like, well, a Jaglom film, but it’s well-directed by Gary Imhoff, who has previously directed other Jaglom works for the theater. The drama is also well-acted; … Frederick manages to conjure up a character who is, at the same time, paradoxically hateful and yet so loving…
…Moreover, the acting alone makes this play worth seeing. Director Gary Imhoff has orchestrated a credible range of emotions in his cast, most notably in the case of Tanna Frederick, the uptight nurse, and Jeff Elam, a Jewish doctor who has a wonderful scene explaining to Semyon why he has been living as a gentile for the past 15 years.
Henry Jaglom’s powerful new play – of a train trip his father actually took across Poland in 1928 with an attractive Polish army nurse – has us confronting two unexpected passengers: Love and Anti-Semitism!
Bravo to Tanna Frederick for tackling the totally unsympathetic role of Katia Wampusyk, the anti-Semitic nurse who falls in love with the stranger on the train Semyon Sapir, who just happens to be a Jew she can’t smell right off. Frederick’s Katia’s so hateful, so ignorant, so unaware; Frederick succeeds in making it impossible to care, to be entertained, to be amused by her girlish flirtations with the man whose religion she detests.
…The entire cast, that also includes Kelly Desarla (Marousia Petranko) and Jeff Elam (Dr. Nahum Gruenbaum), give strong performances under the direction of Gary Imhoff.
…It is a beautiful, heart rending romance, excellently acted, especially by the two leads and skillfully directed by Gary Imhoff.
…Train To Zakopane is a bit talky like, well, a Jaglom film, but it’s well-directed by Gary Imhoff, who has previously directed other Jaglom works for the theater. The drama is also well-acted; … Frederick manages to conjure up a character who is, at the same time, paradoxically hateful and yet so loving…
…Moreover, the acting alone makes this play worth seeing. Director Gary Imhoff has orchestrated a credible range of emotions in his cast, most notably in the case of Tanna Frederick, the uptight nurse, and Jeff Elam, a Jewish doctor who has a wonderful scene explaining to Semyon why he has been living as a gentile for the past 15 years.
Henry Jaglom’s powerful new play – of a train trip his father actually took across Poland in 1928 with an attractive Polish army nurse – has us confronting two unexpected passengers: Love and Anti-Semitism!
Bravo to Tanna Frederick for tackling the totally unsympathetic role of Katia Wampusyk, the anti-Semitic nurse who falls in love with the stranger on the train Semyon Sapir, who just happens to be a Jew she can’t smell right off. Frederick’s Katia’s so hateful, so ignorant, so unaware; Frederick succeeds in making it impossible to care, to be entertained, to be amused by her girlish flirtations with the man whose religion she detests.
…The entire cast, that also includes Kelly Desarla (Marousia Petranko) and Jeff Elam (Dr. Nahum Gruenbaum), give strong performances under the direction of Gary Imhoff.
…It is a beautiful, heart rending romance, excellently acted, especially by the two leads and skillfully directed by Gary Imhoff.
…Train To Zakopane is a bit talky like, well, a Jaglom film, but it’s well-directed by Gary Imhoff, who has previously directed other Jaglom works for the theater. The drama is also well-acted; … Frederick manages to conjure up a character who is, at the same time, paradoxically hateful and yet so loving…
…Moreover, the acting alone makes this play worth seeing. Director Gary Imhoff has orchestrated a credible range of emotions in his cast, most notably in the case of Tanna Frederick, the uptight nurse, and Jeff Elam, a Jewish doctor who has a wonderful scene explaining to Semyon why he has been living as a gentile for the past 15 years.
Henry Jaglom’s powerful new play – of a train trip his father actually took across Poland in 1928 with an attractive Polish army nurse – has us confronting two unexpected passengers: Love and Anti-Semitism!
