page_title: Pigeon (film)
section_title: Synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Pigeon (film) / Synopsis
caption_attribution_description: English: Director Anthony Green Speaking at the Special Screeing of "Pigeon", Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005 at Congregation Habonim in Toronto (Photo Credit: Eli Rubenstein)
context_page_description: Pigeon is a short film by Canadian director Anthony Green. It was produced by Emmy and Gemini nominated Canadian producer Karen Wookey. Jay Firestone was executive producer of the film.
context_section_description: Pigeon is based on the true story of Susi Penzias, aunt of Nobel Prize winning Arno Allan Penzias (who fled Munich, Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939) and great aunt of Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzias.
  The film stars Academy Award nominee Michael Lerner and Canadian actors Wendy Crewson and Joseph Marrese.
  Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, the film describes a chance encounter on a train between a Jewish man trying to escape Nazi persecution and a woman - a complete stranger - sitting next to him on the train.
caption: Anthony Green Speaking at the special Screening of "Pigeon", Jan. 9, 2005 at Congregation Habonim in Toronto
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