'Emotional challenge' for both Jewish, German actors in new film 'World Will Tremble'

(JNS) — There have been many powerful films about the Holocaust, so if one opts to create a new one, one must “bring something new to the conversation,” according to the Israeli-American director Lior Geller.

Geller told JNS that the new film “The World Will Tremble,” which he wrote and directed, “is a story that wasn’t told before, and I think it’s important to make it as accurate as possible.”

The film centers on Michael Podchlebnik and Solomon Weiner, who fled the Nazi death camp Chelmno in German-occupied western Poland on Jan. 19, 1942. The movie is based on the true story of the survival...