The Tat­tooist of Auschwitz, 2024

The Tat­tooist of Auschwitz is a Sky & Pea­cock orig­i­nal six-part his­tor­i­cal dra­ma tele­vi­sion series based on the nov­el of the same name by Heather Mor­ris. Pro­duced by the BAFTA win­ning Syn­chronic­i­ty Films the cast includes Har­vey Kei­t­el, Melanie Lynskey, Jon­ah Hauer-King, and Anna Próch­ni­ak. Fred­erik plays the SS offi­cer Josef Houstek.

The Tat­tooist of Auschwitz is the sto­ry of Lali (Jon­ah Hauer-King), a Slo­va­kian Jew, who, in 1942, was deport­ed to Auschwitz, the con­cen­tra­tion camp where over a mil­lion Jews were mur­dered dur­ing the Holo­caust. Short­ly after arrival, Lali was made one of the Tätowier­er (tat­tooists), charged to ink iden­ti­fi­ca­tion num­bers onto fel­low pris­on­ers’ arms. One day, he met Gita (Anna Próch­ni­ak) when tat­too­ing her pris­on­er num­ber on her arm, lead­ing to a love that defies the hor­rors around them. So began a coura­geous and unfor­get­table, sto­ry. Under con­stant guard from a volatile Nazi SS offi­cer Baret­z­ki (Jonas Nay), Lali and Gita became deter­mined to keep each oth­er alive. Around 60 years lat­er, Lali (Har­vey Kei­t­el) then in his 80s, met aspir­ing writer Heather Mor­ris (Melanie Lynskey). Recent­ly wid­owed, Lali found the courage to tell the world his sto­ry. In recount­ing his past to Heather, Lali final­ly con­front­ed the trau­mat­ic ghosts of his youth and reliv­ed his mem­o­ries of falling in love in the dark­est of places.

Bar­bra Streisand: “Because of the rise in anti­semitism around the world today, I want­ed to sing “Love Will Sur­vive” in the con­text of this series, as a way of remem­ber­ing the six-mil­lion souls who were lost less than 80 years ago. And also to say that even in the dark­est of times, the pow­er of love can tri­umph and endure.”

Har­vey Kei­t­el: “The love sto­ry in this project, in the face of the hor­ror, gives tes­ti­mo­ny to the spir­it and the good­ness of peo­ple.”

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