Tag: Jewish Films
‘1945’ Depicts Reaction of Hungarian Village When Two Silent Jews Arrive
Everyone in a small Hungarian village knows the war is practically over. The 2017 film 1945 is a subdued, but highly accomplished black and white film crafted by writer-director Ferenc Torok and produced by Menamshen Films...
Survivors’ Son Wrestles with Their Unspoken Past
The greatest sources of Holocaust history are the testimonies of survivors through their memories, their writings, their memoirs, and documentary films. You won’t want to miss this beautifully constructed film entitled The Presence of Their...
Aging Holocaust Survivors Form A Musical Band
I must start my review of Saul and Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band differently than other reviews I have written. If you want to put a smile on your face and say L’Chaim “to Life,” I urge...
A Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse
My Best Enemy (Mein Bester Feind), a 2011 film now streaming on paid Amazon Prime, opens in Vienna in 1938, just before Hitler is about to move his army into Austria. The film focuses on...
When You Kill Children, You Kill Infinite Possibilities
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories, a 2020 documentary streaming on Netflix, is narrated by Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren who revisits Anne Frank’s life and the possibility of what she could have been; reading passages of her...
‘The Bird Catcher’: A Jewish girl’s WWII life in Norway
The Bird Catcher, streaming on Amazon Prime, is a 2019 drama that depicts some of the lesser-known stories of Norwegian Jews through the eyes of a young girl trying to survive during World War II.
The...
The Past Hasn’t Even Begun To Pass
Fugitive Pieces, a 2007 is a film streaming on Amazon Prime, spans a period of roughly 35 years, beginning in 1942 and concluding the late 1970s. At the outset, Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) the protagonist...
Film documents Skokie’s resistance to Neo-Nazis
Eli Adler is the creator, co-director, narrator and one of the protagonists in the 2015 documentary film Surviving Skokie,” now streaming on Amazon. Adler remembers his youth in Skokie, Illinois – “we lived on the...
Film Review: Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something
–I was lucky to be able to watch the film Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something at the San Diego International Film Festival’s outdoor drive-in movie experience. Although it didn’t win any official awards at...
New Fiddler on the Roof Movie Is Coming from Hamilton Director Thomas Kail
Fiddler On The Roof is moving from Broadway to the big screen. MGM is gearing up to produce a new movie adaptation of the hit musical, with Thomas Kail set to direct. Kail is known...