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Toronto film fest to close with drama about Holocaust survivors.

Emotional Arithmetic, a star-studded drama about the reunion of three Holocaust survivors, will close the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday.
The film, based on the Matt Cohen novel of the same name, stars venerable Swedish actor Max von Sydow, Hollywood stalwarts Gabriel Byrne and Susan Sarandon and Canadians Christopher Plummer and Roy Dupuis.
Sarandon and Byrne portray survivors of a Second World War internment camp for Jews in France.
They make plans to reunite after discovering the political dissident (von Sydow) who had protected them at the camp did not die at Auschwitz as they had thought, and is still alive.
The past and the present collide as Sarandon's character battles depression, a volatile relationship with her philandering husband (Plummer) and coming to terms with her time in the camp.
"The inclusion of this powerful film reflects the robust nature of our industry," festival co-director Noah Cowan said in a statement.

Источник: cbc.ca, e-news.com.ua