Remembrance of Love

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Remembrance of Love
Directed by Jack Smight
Written by Harold Jack Bloom
Based onStory
by Rena Dictor Le Blanc
Produced by
  • Lynn Guthrie
  • Doris Quinlan
Starring Kirk Douglas
Cinematography Adam Greenberg
Edited by Richard Bracken
Music by William Goldstein
Production
companies
  • Comworld Productions
  • Doris Quinlan Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • December 6, 1982 (1982-12-06)
Running time
120 min

Remembrance of Love is a 1982 war film directed by Jack Smight and starring Kirk Douglas. [1] A reunion of Holocaust survivors in Israel brings together a couple who had been teenage lovers 35 years earlier in Poland during the Second World War. [2] It aired as an NBC Monday Movie . Star Douglas's real-life son Eric Douglas, 23, played his father in flashbacks. Actor and singer Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor, appeared as himself.

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References

  1. Berry, Joanna. "Remembrance of Love". Radio Times . Immediate Media Company Ltd . Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  2. "Picks and Pans Review: Remembrance of Love". People . Meredith Corporation. 28 (23). 6 December 1982. Retrieved 9 May 2013.