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Directed by | Joshua Sinclair |
Written by | Ryan James Joshua Sinclair |
Starring | Ben Silverstone Patrick Swayze Martine McCutcheon |
Distributed by | LBW Media |
Release date(s) | 14 February 2007 |
Running time | 118 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom Austria |
Language | English |
Jump! is a 2007 British-Austrian drama film written and directed by Joshua Sinclair. It starred Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon.[1] It was loosely based on the real-life Halsman murder case. The film was premiered on the 2009 Jewish Film Festival in June 2009. Swayze was unable to attend due to pancreatic cancer.[2]
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Set in Austria, in 1928, with the spectre of Nazism on the rise, a young Jew, Philippe Halsman, is accused of patricide after his father's death during a hike through the Alps. His strained relationship with his father, and the apparent evidence that he has been struck on the head with a rock, point towards the son's guilt. Halsman is put on trial, in Innsbruck, where his case is taken up by one of the country's leading lawyers.
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