Fighter (2000 film)

{{short description|2000 film by Amir Bar-Lev}}

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{{infobox film

| image = Fighter film poster.jpg

| name = "Fighter"

| director = Amir Bar-Lev

| writer =

| starring = Jan Wiener
Arnošt Lustig

| budget =

| distributor = First Run Features

| runtime = 91 minutes

| released = {{Film date|2000}}

}}

Fighter is a documentary film about Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011){{cite web|url=http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-jewish-writer-arnost-lustig-dies/601846 |title=Czech Jewish writer Arnost Lustig dies|first= |last= |author= |date=2011-02-26 |publisher=České noviny (Czech News Agency) |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |trans-title=|format= |doi= |access-date=2011-02-26|quote= }} and Jan Wiener (1920–2010),[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/11/jan-wiener-who-fought-to-britain-after-fleeing-nazis-dies-at-90.html "Jan Wiener, Who Fought in Britain's Air Force After Fleeing Nazis, Dies at 90" Los Angeles Times] 26 November 2010 two Jews who return to Europe to revisit the past.

A survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, Lustig was a Prague-based journalist and author. The German-born Wiener escaped from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, and joined the Royal Air Force in Italy. The film retraces Wiener's escape route, and visits Theresienstadt (where Wiener's mother died), Auschwitz, and Buchenwald. It received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Newport International Film Festival, and the audience award at the Hamptons International Film Festival.[http://www.fighterfilm.com Official site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906012442/http://fighterfilm.com/ |date=2007-09-06 }}