Enemies, A Love Story (film)

Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by Yadwiga, a Gentile Polish servant. His parents, wife and children were taken away by the Nazis. After the war ends, Herman is told that all of his family members perished. He marries Yadwiga, and they emigrate to the United States. He meets the beautiful, passionate Masha, a fellow survivor, and they begin an intense love affair. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman; however, in reality, he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia, survivor guilt and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when he receives word that a family member is searching for him: his wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have died in a concentration camp.

• Ron Silver as Herman Broder
• Anjelica Huston as Tamara Luria-Broder
• Lena Olin as Masha Bloch-Tortshiner
• Margaret Sophie Stein as Yadwiga, Herman's maid
• Alan King as Rabbi Lembeck
• Judith Malina as Shifra Puah Bloch, Masha's mother
• Elya Baskin as Yasha Kobik
• Paul Mazursky as Leon Tortshiner, Masha's ex-husband
• Phil Leeds as Pesheles
• Rita Karin as Mrs. Schreier
• Zypora Spaisman as Sheva Haddas

• The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including two nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky.

• List of Holocaust films

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