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By Kayla DeKraker
An emotional historical drama titled BAU, ARTIST AT WAR, based on an artist’s experience during the Holocaust, is set to release this fall. Its theme song and music video were just released in honor of Yom HaShoah.
“We wanted to release this special trailer featuring Ryn Kid’s emotional song to commemorate Yom HaShoah,” director Sean McNamara said. “Joseph Bau’s story reminds us that love, creativity, and courage can overcome even the worst darkness. It’s a message we all need — now more than ever. We must never forget.”
Yom HaShoah is also known as “Holocaust Remembrance Day.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains, “The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.”
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began April 19, 1943, “after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts.” The uprising latest until May 16, 1943, and was “the largest uprising by Jews during World War II.”
Yom HaShoah occurred on April 24 this year.
The music video features emotional clips from the movie accompanied by Kid’s “However Long Forever Is.”
BAU, ARTIST AT WAR “is based on the true story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau, whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during WWII, an event immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s SCHINDLER’S LIST. This film is a war drama, love story, and espionage tale that needs to be told in this era where survivors are dying, and the Holocaust is slipping from memory,” Showbiz Direct’s synopsis reads.
“This is a story the world needs to see, to remind us of the power of hope, even in the darkest times,” McNamara added. “It’s a powerful testament to resilience, and I can’t wait for audiences to finally see Joseph Bau’s incredible life story on the big screen.”
The movie stars Emile Hirsch as Joseph Bau, “a Polish-born Israeli artist who survived the Płaszów concentration camp during World War II.” Other actors in the film include Inbar Lavi as the female lead, Yan Tual, Adam Tsekhman, Eugene Lipinski, Dalias Blake, Pam Kearns, Josh Zuckerman, Edward Foy, Chris Cope, Tori Griffith and Josh Blacker.
It releases in theaters on Sept. 26.
Based on Bau’s memoir, the movie will remind viewers to look back on and honor those who suffered the horrors of the Holocaust.
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