LOS ANGELES (JTA) — “Ida,” a Polish film about a Catholic novitiate who discovers she is the Jewish child of Holocaust victims, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski collected the Oscar at the 87th annual Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night in Los Angeles.
The spare black-and-white drama, set in Poland in 1962, won international plaudits, but also drew criticism in Poland for its portrayal of Polish complicity in the sins of the Holocaust.
The film was personally significant for Pawlikowski, whose paternal grandmother was killed at Auschwitz.
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