| | |  | DENMARK | Home » » The Island on Bird Street | | | | | | | Description: | | Alex is an 11-year-old Jewish boy living in a World War II Polish ghetto with his father and great-uncle. When Nazis come to his city and clear the town, Alex manages to escape with the help of his family, but is left with only his pet mouse 'Snow'. Finding refuge in an abandoned building on Bird Street, Alex seeks inspiration from his favorite book, 'Robinson Crusoe' while he and Snow await his father's return. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Patrick Bergin, James Bolam, Michael Byrne, Suzanna Hamilton, Heather Tobias | | Director:
| Sren Kragh-Jacobsen | | Format:
| Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| First Look Pictures | | Run Time:
| 102 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| April 01, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
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29 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 ROBINSON CRUSOE, SNOW AND WITSMar 07, 2009
By Loves To Read
"Lu"
Based on a true story during WWII in Warsaw, Poland, it is the survival of an eleven year old Jewish boy separated from his father and uncle who are taken to work camps, from which no one returns. He has three things to sustain him: his pet white mouse, Snow; the book Robinson Crusoe; the promise of his father that he will return. The Nazis regularly patrol the bombed out buildings in the ghetto looking for stray Jews who may have escaped their clutches. It's survival in its most basic form. This overlooked film tells the amazing story of the imagination and wits of this 11 year old as lives day to day trying to survive against all odds. Ala Robinson Crusoe, he establishes a loft for himself in a bombed out building and uses every instinct he has to stay alive and not get captured. A fascinating story and well done film. Great camera work and editing. The many twists and turns in the story will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. Strong performance by Jordan Kiziuk as the 11 year old Alex.
24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Moving tale of the will to surviveMay 21, 2008
By Richard Street
"Dreamster"
This almost feels like a foriegn film yet is in English and the actors have mixed accents. It is the story of a young Jewish boy in the getto areas of Warsaw during the German occupation of WWII. He is forced to become creative and resourseful to keep from being sent off to a concentration camp for a questionable fate. The mood and settings are very realistic and expertly filmed. The entire film takes place within a few block radius. Most of the ordeal the boy endures is written in facial expressions and sutle moments of joy and despair. The story is a moving testament to the human spirit in the midst of the atrocities of war. The sound track is classical in nature and builds slowly. The piano movements are as memorable as the violin solos of Shindler's List. A very nice piece of film making.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
An island, indeed.May 23, 2006
By Naomi Schoenfeld
I normally shy away from Holocaust films. It seems somehow to belittle the experiences of those who lived through it, to sit in the comfort of my living room watching portrayals of their worst nightmares on a screen. But this intense, little-known film brings out all the horror with none of the gratuitous, and manages to be uplifting in the process.
The story is simple. A young Jewish boy, Alex, manages to hide during the forced emptying of his Polish ghetto during WWII - only to find himself trapped in the deserted ruins, which are walled off and landlocked within a bustling city. With little food or water, learning to avoid the patrols and other desperate escapees equally, he waits there, believing his father will come back for him.
Of special note are the few, but wonderfully rendered, exceptions to the Nazi brutality rule within the story - a soldier who, having hunted Alex into a corner, stares at the cowering boy and then turns and leaves; the reactions of a doctor outside the ghetto walls whom Alex resorts to for help.
This film deserves far more attention than it has received - at the very least, a DVD release.
A word of caution - despite the simplicity, this is no movie for children. The ugliness of the time and the hopelessness of Alex's situation is very real. Keep this gem reserved for the teenage crowd.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A Boys Got to Do What a Boys Got to Do...Sep 28, 2009
By Kenneth A. Nelson
"Just Being Ken"
Finding himself left alone, except for "Snow" his pet mouse, this young Jewish boy is thrown into an exausting self-preservation mode when the Nazis are evacuating the Ghetto he lives in with his father and great uncle who are pulled away from him as they are being herded to the vehicles that will transport all the evacuees to their sure fated deaths in various consentration camps.
If he can only avoid detection by the Nazi Soldiers, the non-Jewish neighborhood kids/thugs and the ocassional path-crossings with others on the down-low. If he can make it through, what will he face next? What will be left of the world?
A wonderful story, superb acting and fantastic visuals to put you inside the Ghetto.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Surviving is the countersign!Jan 03, 2006
By Hiram Gomez Pardo
Powerful, haunting and bravery portrait in the middle of the WW2, when by those random' s caprices, a Jewish boy and his father are separated, in times of Nazi invasion. This boy will face to face by himself, day by day the horrors of the War under different perspectives. Fortunately his smartness will allow to build an improvised bunker: a desolated wreck that will work out as an attic. The way he builds the stairway and his undeniable love for his pet "Snow" (a sympathetic hamster), and his persuasiveness despite the worse days will earn his own honor 's medal.
A worthy picture that deals a matter depicted many times before, but that nevertheless maintains its own artistic integrity.
Go for this hidden gem and very unknown work.
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