Stephen Dorff is quite fierce as a Nazi general. “I’ll Find You,” which was filmed on location in Lodz and Krakow, is not the type of film you’d expect from the director of “Real Genius.” But Coolidge does a lovely job, especially with the cast. But the dark cloud of imminent Nazi invasion looms. Rachel and Robert dream of performing together at La Scala and Carnegie Hall. ![]() When Lena’s flamboyant, opera-singer brother Benno Moser (Stellan Skarsgard), who is German, hears Robert sing and offers to mentor the young man, Robert seems set for a brilliant career. But she is expected by her strict and religious family to marry a Jew, and they have a rich, young man from Switzerland ready and willing. As young adults, Robert and Rachel are attracted to one another. As children (played by Sebastian Croft and Ursula Parker), they were frenemies, studying at the same music school in Lodz, which was run by a head mistress named Lena (Connie Nielsen). In this case, the protagonists are young, Jewish violinist Rachel Rubin (Adelaide Clemens, “The Great Gatsby”) and Catholic opera singer Robert Pulaski (London-born Leo Suter, who does his own singing). Ward and produced by Fred Roos (“The Godfather: Part II,” “Apocalypse Now”), the film is based on stories of Polish musicians of the time. ![]() Co-written by Academy Award-winner David S. “Valley Girl,” “Rambling Rose” and “Material Girls” director Martha Coolidge delivers “I’ll Find You,” an uncharacteristic period romance set in World War II-era Poland.
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