“Based on a true story” covers a lot of ground in this love story that focuses on a Jewish woman and Polish man who escape from Auschwitz but are separated, each believing the other is dead. Eventually the woman discovers the man is alive and they are reunited at the end. This much is true, but a check on wikipedia reveals that much else shown the film is totally untrue, and the denouement is awkwardly ambiguous: Their reconciliation did not mean coming together, though they saw each other half a dozen times. In the film she has got off the bus and looks across the road at him. Finis. Cool.
Divorcing the reality from the film, to view it as a film only, it is too long, and uses a foolish histrionic premise as the woman, living in New York, makes the life of her family a misery while she secretly finds and eventually contacts her former lover and saviour. There was something terribly false about this and it spoiled the film for me. Nonetheless there were some fine moments and the acting of the wartime scenes was of a high standard.