An Israeli film crew who
arrived in Lodz, Poland, to begin shooting director Avi Nesher's movie
"The Sins" found the set defaced by swastikas and knives.
Nesher, whose films have won multiple awards
in Israel and international acclaim, said that the day before his crew
arrived, the crew of another movie had been involved in an incident with
local residents.
"When the residents were informed that the
next day an Israeli film would begin shooting, [their behavior] crossed
over into violent anti-Semitism, what they called an 'intifada,'" Nesher
said.
In light of the anti-Semitic
threats, Polish police decided to ramp up security on and around the
set, and assign the actors bodyguards.
"The Sins," set in 1977, tells the story of
two sisters who are driven apart by a dark secret but are forced to work
together to keep their parents from discovering it.
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