David Bezmozgis was born in Latvia and emigrated as a boy to Toronto, growing up in a Russian-Jewish community.

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During the course of the interview, Soros admitted that as a boy in Nazi occupied Hungary he collaborated with the Nazis in confiscating Jewish property.

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Kraft grew up in an observant Jewish family in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Mass. and as a boy was a fierce sports fan.

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As they converged around him, a cordon of policemen headed them off and surrounded the young Jewish boy who refused to be intimidated.

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The probings of the black-clad police inspector Henri Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) recall the sinister ways of the Vichy regime, as the hunted boy evokes Jewish wartime refugees, and the solidarity of the shopkeepers and laborers who protect him reflects a bygone but heartwarming class unity (as well as the comforting myth of a nation of resisters).

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