Synopsis
The film HALF THE TOWN tells the story of Jewish photographer and municipal politician Chaim Berman. Before World War Two broke out, he was actively engaged in a peaceful coexistence of Poles, Jews, and Germans in his Polish hometown. But before too long, his cosmopolitan attitude turned into a personal disaster…The elaborate animation - inspired by the works of painter Marc Chagall - brings a long since forgotten world back to life. Photographer Berman’s legacy of approximately 10,000 portraits on glass negatives are the basis for a film that attempts to reconstruct the life of its creator. HALF THE TOWN takes the viewers on a journey through the tides of a turbulent European century and tells the moving story of a man whose beliefs were more advanced than the world he lived in…