Abramorama Acquires "The Last Twins"
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- Published on Friday, 25 April 2025 08:31
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Abramorama has acquired North American distribution rights for The Last Twins, a powerful documentary illustrating the actions of Erno "Zvi" Spiegel who risked everything to save dozens of young twins from almost certain death amidst the atrocities of Auschwitz.
Award-winning filmmakers Perri Peltz and Matthew O'Neill bring this inspiring story to light in collaboration with Spiegel's daughter, Dr. Judith Richter, and Liev Schreiber, the film's narrator.
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"Erno Spiegel's story reminds us that even in the darkest places, there are people who choose to act with courage and compassion" explains co-director Perri Peltz. "The Last Twins is a tribute to one man's quiet defiance and the children whose lives—and legacies—he helped preserve." Co-director Matthew O'Neill continues, "We are at a critical point in history - a moment when memories of the Holocaust are fading, and the resurgent tide of antisemitism and bigotry now coursing through our world makes remembering more imperative than ever. As the number of firsthand accounts dwindles, there's an urgency to illuminate one of humanity's greatest atrocities with Erno's story of hope and heroism."
The Last Twins tells the extraordinary story of Erno Spiegel, an unsung hero who risked everything to protect the most vulnerable in Auschwitz—dozens of young boys, many of them twins, targeted by Josef Mengele for brutal medical experimentation. Through courage, compassion, and ingenuity, Spiegel shielded these children from unimaginable harm. When liberation came, he didn't stop—he led the boys on a harrowing journey across Europe, ultimately bringing them home. Through first-hand testimony and exclusive archival material, The Last Twins brings to life the voices of those who survived because of Spiegel's defiance. His acts of humanity didn't just save lives—they created a legacy. Today, the children he protected have families of their own, with descendants who are researchers, advocates, lawyers, and musicians, living all over the world.
Abramorama CEO Karol Martesko-Fenster stated, "Perri and Matt's documentary is a revelation for audiences. The fact that we are beginning the run on the 81st anniversary of D-Day reminds us of individual human acts of courage that impact generations."
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The Last Twins will begin a weeklong engagement at the QUAD Cinema in New York City on June 6th with screenings across North American to follow. In-theater Q&A's with the filmmakers, Dr. Judtih Richter and guests will take place during the opening week in NYC and in select cities nationwide.
THE LAST TWINS (US, 80 Minutes, English – Unrated) ABRAMORAMA presents a DCTV and ZULI PRODUCTIONS film "The Last Twins." Associate Producer Elena Garcia Diaz-Pines. Consulting Producer Lauren Veronis. Supervising Producer Linda Saffire. Written by Patrick McMahon. Original Music by Jonathan Zalben. Edited by Patrick McMahon, ACE. Produced by Tom Denison Perri Peltz Matthew O'Neill Yuval Lifshitz and Ben Shani. Narrated by Liev Schreiber. Directed by Perri Peltz and Matthew O'Neill. An Abramorama North American Release. For more information, visit www.TheLastTwinsFilm.com.
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About the Directors
Perri Peltz is an Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri directed Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media, for Bloomberg Originals, Surveilled for HBO and created the Emmy® winning documentary news series AXIOS on HBO with Matthew O'Neill. Perri and Matthew also directed and produced the 2019 HBO Documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Previously, Perri directed the HBO documentaries, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, about the opioid addiction epidemic and Risky Drinking, about alcohol use disorder. She co-directed A Conversation About Growing Up Black as part of the "Conversation on Race" series for The New York Times Op-Docs, and other films include HBO's Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Perri hosts "The Perri Peltz Show" with Matthew O'Neill on SiriusXM Radio and has a Doctorate in Public Health from Columbia University. She was previously an award-winning broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC, and CNN.
Matthew O'Neill is an Emmy® Award winning, and Academy Award® nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media for Bloomberg Originals, Surveilled for HBO and created the Emmy® winning HBO documentary news series AXIOS on HBO with Perri Peltz. Matthew and Perri also directed the 2019 HBO documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Matthew has been making non-fiction films with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC's Chinatown for the last 25 years. His earlier projects for HBO, ESPN, Disney+, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American criminal justice system, and the School of American Ballet. His filmmaking has taken him to more than 50 different countries for films including Baghdad ER, In Tahrir Square and Wartorn. He has received two Academy Award nominations for Redemption and China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province and has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, five Emmy Awards and a Director's Guild Award nomination.
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About Abramorama
Abramorama is a leading innovator in worldwide event cinema, theatrical distribution, marketing, and rights management for nonfiction, narrative and music centric films. In its 25 years of operation, Abramorama has been the trusted film partner to many of the most respected global brands in entertainment, including AARP, Amazon, Apple, Atlantic Records, Concord Music Group, HBO, Hulu, National Geographic, MSNBC, Netflix, PBS, Showtime, SONY, The Beatles, Universal Music Group, Warner Bros. Discovery, Warner Music, and many more. Through a powerful global network of cinemas, digital media outlets, cross platform facilitators, and affinity marketing partners, Abramorama strategically implements a unified distribution and audience activation plan for each title.
Abramorama has successfully distributed and marketed hundreds of films, including Cathy Garcia-Sampana's record breaking Hello, Love, Again; Oliver Stone's Nuclear Now; Sam Green's 32 Sounds, Vanessa & Ted Hope's Invisible Nation; Ron Howard's Grammy Award®-winning The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years; Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool; Roberta Grossman and Nancy Spielberg's Who Will Write Our History; Atlantic Records and Melanie Martinez' K-12; John McDermott's Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church; Amir Bar-Lev's Long Strange Trip – The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead; Tabbert Fiiller's The Public Image Is Rotten; Danny Clinch and Pearl Jam's Let's Play Two; Corbett Redford and Green Day's Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk; John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane – The John Coltrane Documentary; Brett Bern's BANG! The Bert Berns Story; Brett Morgen and National Geographic's seminal Jane; Asif Kapadia's Senna; Neil Young's vast catalog of Bernard Shakey Productions; Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Twenty; Sacha Gervasi's Spirit Award-winning Anvil! The Story of Anvil; Banksy's Academy Award® nominated & Spirit Award-winning Exit Through the Gift Shop; Laurie Anderson's New York Times critics' pick, Heart of a Dog; Showtime's National Board of Review Winner Listen to Me Marlon; Academy Award®-nominee and IDA Best Documentary Winner The Look of Silence; and the episodic multi-platform series Deconstructing The Beatles. For more information, visit abramorama.com.
