US Premiere

The production notes summarize this as follows: "Some lies can save people even if they wound them forever. Clara Planck, a brilliant and famous cellist, returns to Poland 30 years after World War II to visit the places that still haunt her. Clara and her husband, Doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes), once had a family, home, and a medical practice in Warsaw. When Nazis invaded Poland and herded the Jewish population into the ghetto, their family, including their two young daughters, barely had enough time to flee. They literally ran for their lives. The first “safe” place they sought refuge was in Emilia’s remote farm, where she conceals the Planck family in her attic. Emilia is a Polish woman who sold them vegetables and whose husband is missing in action. But she has ulterior motives hiding underneath her generosity. Spring 1941 is a character-driven story about individuals shocked out of their everyday circumstance and into a world where any wrong movement could be their last. The family faces terror, love, dependency, and betrayal on unimaginable levels. Spring 1941 is the first film about the Holocaust co-produced by Poles and Israelis. Viscerally adapted by director Uri Barbash, the historical drama was shot on location in Lublin and is based on Polish Holocaust survivor Ida Fink’s stories."