Treasure

"It wouldn't be a family trip without a few breakdowns"

2024 1h 51m EN

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 46

DramaComedy

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A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

“It wouldn't be a family trip without a few breakdowns”

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Cast

Lena Dunham
Ruth
Stephen Fry
Edek
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Stefan
Iwona Bielska
Zofia
Maria Mamona
Karolina
Wenanty Nosul
Antoni
Klara Bielawka
Irena Ulicz
Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska
Zuzanna Ulicz

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Julia von Heinz
Writers: John Quester, Julia von Heinz
Languages: English, German, Polish
Countries: France, Germany, United States of America, Poland, Hungary, Belgium

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MONEY

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Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 29% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Polish.

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WORLD

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International production across 6 countries: France, Germany, United States of America, Poland, Hungary, Belgium.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Julia von Heinz, shot by Daniela Knapp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mary Komasa. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Sandie Bompar shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Julia von Heinz directs. Daniela Knapp behind the camera. Mary Komasa scores. Sandie Bompar cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in France, Germany, United States of America, Poland, Hungary, Belgium. Dialogue in English, German, Polish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Earned back only 29% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 2 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Polish.
5International production across 6 countries: France, Germany, United States of America, Poland, Hungary, Belgium.
6Directed by Julia von Heinz, shot by Daniela Knapp. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Mary Komasa. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Sandie Bompar shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry and Zbigniew Zamachowski carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "It wouldn't be a family trip without a few breakdowns".
11IMDB entry: tt9462944 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Only 46 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Daniela Knapp
Original score: Mary Komasa
Editing: Sandie Bompar
Sound: Pascal Villard
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Status: Released
Budget: $2,000,000
Box office: $583,631
Return: 29% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Treasure (2024)

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CinemaSerf2024-06-20
★ 7/10
American journalist "Ruth" (Lena Dunham) had long planned a trip from the USA to her ancestral home in Poland only to find her effervescent father "Edek" (Stephen Fry) has decided to join her. A fluent speaker and full of a slightly annoying joie de vivre, they embark on a trip to the tourist sites, but that's not what she wants. She wants to head to the family home in Łódź where they were a successful industrial family before the Nazi's confiscated their wealth, property and sent "Edek" and his wife to Auschwitz. What is clear is that dad is not so keen on this itinerary, nor is he at all keen on train travel - and the remainder of the film takes us on a family journey that will open the eyes of the daughter whilst bringing back the demons for the father. This tries quite effectively at times to introduce some humour into what is quite an emotional topic, especially when their trip does eventually take them (and us) to his haunting place of incarceration where he finds a flood of memories readily come back to him. Fry over-eggs the accent a bit, but he does manage to convey something of the harrowing nature of his incarceration, and of his mind's determination to protect itself from opening that door to trauma again. Dunham also serves well enough as his independently-minded daughter to support that increasingly troubled characterisation. It's quite a poignant drama that encourages us, as D-Day 80 is still fresh in the mind - to imagine the horrors visited on the Polish people by the Nazis and to realise that in many cases (this is set in 1991) their houses and businesses were still pretty much as they were left in 1941 - only largely dilapidated and with new, poverty-stricken occupants. I did rather like the conclusion - it poses quite an interesting question about what we might do in her place. As a drama, it maybe doesn't need the cinema, but the photography at the now silenced death camp is still blood-curdling.

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