THE SURVIVOR Q&A | TIFF 2021

The team behind THE SURVIVOR in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Barry Levinson’s biographical drama stars Ben Foster as boxer Harry Haft, who looks to carry on after fighting to survive in WWII concentration camps. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit . In films like Leave No Trace, Hell or High Water, and The Messenger, Ben Foster has delivered one deeply authentic performance after another. In THE SURVIVOR he takes the title role as a man bent, bruised, but never broken by his experience of the Holocaust. This remarkable Barry Levinson film, based on a true story, offers irrefutable proof that Foster is one of the very best actors of his generation. When the Nazis invade Poland, Harry Haft (Foster), who is Jewish, is sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp. He is a powerfully built man, so a charming but sadistic officer (Billy Magnussen) offers him a