Great Performances
The performing arts anthology series brings best from the worlds of music and dance into viewers’ living rooms. From classical music and opera to ballet and musical theater, cameras capture the stage performances of some of the best artists in the world.
Matt Roush says...
The renowned character actor David Strathairn reprises his acclaimed solo stage performance in a Great Performances adaptation of Remember This, a Clark Young and Derek Goldman’s play about WWII Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski. Strathairn portrays Karski and scores of other characters in this account of how Karski carried the first eyewitness reports of Holocaust atrocities to the Western world, all the way to the Oval Office. The film, shot in black and white, was produced on a Brooklyn soundstage at the height of the pandemic in July 2020, completed last year for a brief theatrical run.
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