Date 10/09/2015 - News People
In his latest film, Christopher Plummer plays an Auschwitz survivor searching for a former camp guard in a film that explores the themes of memory and undying anger. In Canadian director Atom Egoyan's "Remember", which is competing for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, the 85-year-old Plummer plays Zev, a dementia-stricken resident of a Jewish home for the aged in New York. Plummer, whose most famous role was as Captain von Trapp in "The Sound of Music," was not in Venice for the premiere but told a news conference by video link that he'd been intrigued by the character of Zev, whose memory fades in and out in the movie.