Forever alone

An Auschwitz survivor Herschel Haft aka. Harry Haft is looking for his girlfriend who was also captured by the nazis. He thinks she doesn't know he's alive, doesn't know Harry lives in New York, but if his name is in the papers, she'd possibly read it. So Harry needs a fight, a good fight, to break the worldwide news. A match against Rocky Marciano would make good publicity. It ain't easy. Harry is a troubled and scarred soul. He boxed against the other jews in win-or-die fights in Auschwitz-Birkenau to survive himself and his past is haunting every second. Finding her lost love might bring at least little comfort. The Survivor, by Barry Levinson, is a heartfelt movie, an arresting story, but pacing of the piece too slow.