Back to Berlin (2018)

Back to Berlin: Directed by Catherine Lurie, Catherine Lurie-Alt. With Yoran Maron, Dan Marom, Joseph Gottdenker, Maximillian Marco Katz. Back to Berlin is the first biker flick-meets-holocaust feature documentary. Eleven motor bikers have a mission to take the Maccabiah torch from Israel to the site of the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, for the first Jewish Olympic Games on German soil. They will retrace the heroic journeys of the original 1930s’ Maccabiah riders and discover how they or their families survived the Holocaust.

“Highly contemplative and well-executed doc revolving around the 2015 Maccabiah Games, apparently referred to in more common vernacular as the u0026quot;Jewish Olympics,u0026quot; and held where we commonly see footage of Jesse Owensu0026#39; dominating in Berlin as Hitler sulked in hate-driven disgust.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is not relegated to mere celebration, however, as the Maccabiah Games, we learn, have arisen from a continued modern-day emergence of the same hate that gave us Hitler.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eExtremely well-conceived – itu0026#39;s sombering and triumphant – this is a modern historical doc that canu0026#39;t be missed, as it spotlights the dark forces at work within the human condition, and provides a persevering means by which to defeat them.”