It was written and directed by Gil Kofman and features Mark Webber and Rachel Miner in the leading roles.

He does not have much of a social life and spends much of his free time visiting his catatonic mother in the hospital.

Watching the tape, Lukas becomes captivated, not less so when he spots the old man's obituary in the newspaper, and decides to attend the funeral.

While visiting his mother in the hospital, he again meets the medical student Mira, whose father is also a camp survivor.

He gives away his shoes to his co-worker, and dons a home made concentration camp prisoner uniform, as he embarks on, what he describes as, a death march.

The Memory Thief was the first feature film directed by the Nigerian-born playwright Gil Kofman.

[1] Kofman himself had married into a family of Holocaust survivors, so the topic of the film related to his personal life.

[1] Maureen M. Hart of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Kofman had "crafted an unusual tale of post-traumatic stress and pain and the ownership thereof," and she singled out for praise Jerry Adler's performance as an old Holocaust survivor.

[2] Leba Hertz, on the other hand, in a review for the San Francisco Chronicle, complained that "something rings false" about the movie.