holocaust
Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives, Lost Worlds
Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, RedlandThe catastrophes of the twentieth century, most significantly the Shoah, led to the near destruction of the rich musical heritage of Eastern European and Russian Jews. Composers, performers and their art were either lost forever, or else became dispersed and fragmented, leaving only shadowy echoes of a lost world. Stephen Muir will talk about … Continue reading Jewish Music out of the Shadows: Hidden Archives, Lost Worlds
Denial
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomIn 1996, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. … Continue reading Denial
The Zookeepers Wife
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomAdapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis. The … Continue reading The Zookeepers Wife
No poetry after Auschwitz
Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, RedlandStarting with Theodor Adorno’s much-quoted proposition that ‘After Auschwitz it is barbaric to write poetry’, this talk will explore the tension between confronting the reality of the Holocaust and responding artistically through the medium of poetry to human experience. By focusing on individual poems by survivors such as Paul Celan and Primo Levi and … Continue reading No poetry after Auschwitz
1945
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomThe arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of … Continue reading 1945
Finding Relly
Redland Green Bowling Club Redland Green Road, RedlandRosemary grew up as the daughter of a Czech immigrant in post-war UK and Canada. She was unaware of her father’s Jewish identity and of what really happened to his absent relatives. After her father’s death, she felt compelled to discover the truth about his family. Tracing her aunt Relly, who had emigrated to Australia … Continue reading Finding Relly
A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomLast year this film was sold out, so we are reshowing it. Canadian director Christian Duguay explores the horrors of World War Two from the perspective of two young Jewish boys living in Nazi-occupied France in Un Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles). Based on the acclaimed memoirs of the same name by Joseph … Continue reading A bag of marbles (un sac de billes)
Back to Berlin
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomFollowing eleven modern-day Jewish bikers on an epic journey from Tel-Aviv to Berlin, crossing nine European countries and 4,500 km in twenty-four days. Their mission, to deliver the Maccabi torch to Hitler’s infamous 1936 Olympic stadium, for the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabiah Games. These riders follow in the tracks of the early … Continue reading Back to Berlin
Remember
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomCanada/Germany 2015, 94 mins, English Director Atom Egoyan featuring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau ‘Christopher Plummer puts on a master class in acting, and his director, Atom Egoyan, delivers one in audience manipulation in Remember a psychological thriller featuring that most blood-boiling of plot devices: a Nazi who escaped justice.’ Mr. Plummer is Zev and … Continue reading Remember
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