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Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Sagebrecht), ...more

This 1998 production has a worthy story line: A young woman of the emancipated '70s spurns her Jewish background, but gets caught up in it anyway. Unfortunately, the film resorts to contrivance and melodrama to support the theme of her reconciliation with her identity. The central character is a philosophy student named Chaya Silberschmidt (Laura Fraser), the daughter of Holocaust survivors. She is thoughtful and loving. But her modern outlook -- she hangs out with Gentiles and swims in the nude ...more