The Maelstrom - A Family Chronicle - Film by Peter Forgacs from Peter Forgacs on Vimeo.

Peter Forgacs, The Maelstrom, circa 2008

The Maelstrom makes extraordinary artful use of considerable cache of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II and dealing with the extended Peereboom family.

"What we see is a Jewish family first living unknowingly in the shadow of the Holocaust and then trying to cope with it still unaware of what it will finally mean."

- Peter Forgacs