Watermarks

The documentary is about the Hakoah club in Vienna. The club was founded in 1909. It opened because Jewish athletes were barred from the clubs. Its women’s swimming team was a strong side in the 1930s. The swimmers were placing in competitions. Germany and Austria were joined in 1938. The new rulers shut the club down. Staying in the country became impossible for the swimmers. Officials of the club put together an escape plan. The women left before the war began. They scattered to different countries. The director finds them sixty five years later. He visits them one by one in their homes. Then he brings them together in their old pool. Hanni Lux and Judith Haspel appear in the eighty minute documentary. It is an American, French and Israeli production Yaron Zilberman finished in 2004.