During the Nazi regime, Dr. Josef Mengele conducted "scientific" experiments on and shot "research" footage of a Hungarian Jewish family of dwarfs. (Mengele, by experimenting on them, saved them from the gas chambers)
Fifty years later, Hannelore Witkofski, a "short-statured" woman born in post-war Germany, set out on a quest to locate the films. During the process, she befriended the only surviving family member, Perla, an actress, now living in Israel. Before Auschwitz, Perla and her family performed in the Jewish Lilliput Troupe in Hungary. She reports back to Perla on her search, calling from Auschwitz, the Max Planck Institute, and the home of one of Mengele's photographers.
This astounding, intimate film tells us as much about the present moment as it does about the fate of disabled people in Nazi Germany.
