My Name Is Sara tells the true life-story of Sara Guralnick, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
My Name Is Sara is an American biography, drama and history film directed by Steven Oritt and starring Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, Pawel Królikowski, Piotr Nerlewski, Michalina Olszanska, Eryk Lubos, Artur Sokolski, Aleksandra Pisula, Ksawery Szlenkier and Izabela Dabrowska. The screenplay was written by David Himmelstein. The film was released on July 13, 2022 by Strand Releasing in the United States.
History
In June of 1941, Sara Góralnik was just 11 years old when the German Army invaded her hometown of Korets, in present-day Ukraine. Prior to the war, Korets was part of an independent Poland which encompassed the eastern territory of Ukraine, home to a thriving Jewish community whose history in the region goes back over 1,000 years.
There, Jews forged a burgeoning merchant-class that in some of the provinces such as Volyn, where Korets sits, comprised as much as two-thirds of the local population.
