"Remembrance of Love" tells the story of a Shoah survivor, who recently lost his wife and travels to Israel with his daughter to participate in a gathering of former camp prisoners. There, he searches for a young girl he once left behind pregnant, meets her by chance and has to learn that love can't overcome everything. Meanwhile his daughter falls in love with an Israeli security agent and is caught between career and emotions.It is, of course, a very serious setting that this film chooses and that makes it something special. Overall it is quite an ordinary romance but the tragic circumstances that seperated the two leave you hoping for them to be happy again. What happens is understandable, even though it is not necessarily the right thing to do. The part with his daughter was a bit too much for me personally, she just meets someone for a few days and falls madly in love, maybe I'm just unromantic but that did seem quite forced.All in all the movie is somewhere inbetween a drama and a romance and personally I would have preferred more drama. That way it somehow stays a cliché romance with a very dark background. Not a bad movie, a lot of truth and wisdom but not as shaking as it could have been.

In Remembrance of Love, Kirk Douglas and his daughter Pam Dawber travel to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. She's a journalist and interested in learning everyone's stories, but he's very closed-lipped about his experiences. Turns out, he fell in love before the war, and he's hoping to find his sweetheart at the reunion.As you might be able to tell from the title, this movie is all about romance. Pam falls for Yoram Gal, and Kirk's romance with Chana Eden is two-fold, told in the present and through flashbacks of the past. The cutest parts of the movie are the flashbacks, since Kirk's son Eric Douglas plays his younger self! Eric and Irit Frank are really cute together, which is necessary for the audience to care and root for them when they grow older.If you like these types of movies, or books like The Lost Wife, you might want to give this a watch. It was just a little too "tv movie" for my taste, even though it had good intentions. It completely fits in with every stereotype of a television movie from the 1980s, but depending on your style, that will make you seek or avoid it.

Good idea, lukewarmly executed. I enthusiastically agree with the previous reviewer on one important point; if I were to identify THE one single thing that was most wrong with this film, it would be the casting of Pam Dawber as the daughter. She was just terrible. But, from there on we'll need to agree to disagree. I wasn't that pleased with the casting of Kirk Douglas, although his performance was very solid... he just didn't say "Jewish man" to me. For my money, the best and most natural (how could he miss?) performance in the film was Robert Clary's. For me he just lit up the screen in the upbeat scenes, and he made me feel his pain in the somber scenes of remembrance. Some of the plot twists were a bit contrived and a little too "easy", but hey... this was a TV movie, right? Nothing phenomenal here in the way of filmmaking, but some nice scenes of Israel, and well worth the viewing for Robert Clary fans who would like to see him do something a little deeper for a change.

Chana Eden was a wonderful choice for Leah. Pam Dawber was an awful choice as the daughter. Robert Clary, playing himself and as I know an actual Holocaust survivor, just an obvious choice to be politically correct but an awful actor. Kirk Douglas acts with his eyes, and without words he conveys volumes. Worth the investment in time and money to own this video. This film is gorgeous and if you've been to Israel, you want to catch this gem. There are many messages quite poignant. I like this film and Kirk Douglas, as always, brings it all to the table. Again Pam Dawber couldn't have been a more awful casting as the daughter. YIKES. I loved a cute scene when Kirk Douglas dances in celebration of the birth of his grandson. He has it all, does it all, when he is on screen I am most happy.