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The National Center for Jewish Film The National Center for Jewish Film NEW RELEASES 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him Festival the implementation of the Final Solution. Providing an intimate look Germany, 2005, 89 min, color 35mm into the world of senior Nazi officials and bureaucrats, the film German & English w/ English subtitles includes access to Ludin’s private letters, reports, and photographs Director/Writer: Malte Ludin (which he kept in leather bound scrapbooks), documenting Nazi rallies and events, meetings, deportations and other actions. Public Exhibition 35mm Rental: Call • Berlin Film Festival (2005); Bergen International Film Festival The Buchenwald Ball Festival (2005); International Film Festival Bratislava (2005); Haifa Australia, 2006, 52 min, color International Film Festival (2005) Producer/Director/Writer: Andrew Wiseman Co-Producer/Writer: Danny Ben-Moshe Co-Director/Writer: Uri Mizrahi Public Exhibition Beta or DVD Rental: Call Malte Ludin's documentary about his father, Hanns Ludin, a prominent Nazi who was tried and executed as a war criminal in 1947, focuses on how his family grapples with--or refuses to engage- -the history of their family and of Weimar and Nazi Germany more generally. Although the truth about Hanns Ludin’s role in the war is The Buchenwald Ball is a film that celebrates survival. Uplifting, full of well documented, when Malte Ludin, Hanns Ludin’s youngest child, swagger and joie de vivre, it tells the story of 45 orphans who confronts his family with questions about Hanns and his legacy, escaped the Holocaust and found their way to Australia after their Hann’s widow, children, and grandchildren argue with him and with liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp. These child each other about their family’s history, a topic which has remained, to survivors came to be known as the Buchenwald Boys, a group of a large degree, undiscussed by the family in the 60 years since the friends who drink hard, argue with gusto, sustain one another, and war. dance to live. The film documents their struggles, their humor, and ultimately the tenacity of their human spirits in the aftermath of Hanns Elard Ludin found fame as a young officer during the Weimar unimaginable tragedy. Whether they are debating how to celebrate Republic after having conspired on Hitler’s behalf in the German the 60th ball or the existence for God, the Boys are full of vigor and army. When Hitler came to power, Ludin quickly rose to become a humor. Nazi storm trooper Obergruppenführer and, by the time he was 28, he had an army of no less than 300,000 storm troopers under his Four of the Boys—Szaja Chaskiel, Sam Michalowicz, Henry Salter, command. Ludin and his family enjoyed all the privileges of the Third and Joe Szwarcberg—now in their seventies and eighties, share Reich. In 1941, Hitler sent him as emissary to the Nazi’s vassal state, stories from before and after their liberation, revealing memories of Slovakia. As "Plenipotentiary Minister of the German Reich," his childhood homes, the last moments with murdered parents, surviving mission was to push Berlin’s interests, which included, in particular, The National Center for Jewish Film For More Information: www.jewishfilm.org or (781) 736-8600 or (781) 899-7044 Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS 053 Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 VHS & DVD are for institutional use and do not include public performance rights. (781) 736-8600; [email protected] Call for 35mm, 16mm, Beta, Video, and DVD public performance rentals. 8/15/2006 Pr e v i e w tapes: $10 for shipping/handling . 1 Nazi ghettos, camps and death marches, and their emigration to character returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his Australia. The film follows Chaskiel on his first visit to Poland and parents and his childhood sweetheart. Germany since his liberation. Accompanied by his son, Mark, Chaskiel visits the camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, In his book on Yiddish cinema, Bridge of Light, critic J. Hoberman where he visits Block 66, the children’s block, where he and most of calls The Cantor's Son an "anti-Jazz Singer," further remarking that the Boys were imprisoned. the film's story parallels Oysher's own struggle to reconcile his cantorial calling with a career in show business. Like his film Every year on April 11, the anniversary of their liberation, the character, Oysher, born in Bessarabia the son and grandson of Buchenwald Boys hold a ball filled with music, dancing, and an cantors, was both a matinee idol and a celebrated cantor. Oysher energy that defies their advancing ages. The ball is a defiant was married to his The Cantor’s Son co-star Florence Weiss. celebration of life, friendship, family, and love. After film director Sidney M. Goldin (director of Uncle Moses and East and West, also restored by NCJF) suffered a fatal heart attack during the production of The Cantor’s Son, he was replaced by The Cantor's Son Yiddish Feature Stanislavsky-protege Ilya Motlyeff, who is credited as the film’s USA, 1937, 90 minutes, b&w New Restoration director. The film's score (including the sentimental song "Mayn Yiddish with new English subtitles Theatrical / Festival Shtetle Belz") was composed by Alexander Olshanetsky, a concert Producers: Arthur Block & (Samuel) Max Seigel violinist and veteran of the 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater. Screenplay: Louis Frieman Director: Ilya Motyleff (& Sidney Goldin, uncredited) "A deft combination of comedy, romance and outstanding music, this Cast: Moishe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Michael Rosenberg, Isidore new Jewish picture will appeal tremendously to the Jewish fans. A Cashier, Judith Abarbanel fine cast, well-done story and deft direction, combined with an Restoration: The National Center for Jewish Film unusually beautiful musical score make this one of the most outstanding Jewish pictures produced in this country" - Film Daily Public Exhibition 35mm Rental: Call (Dec. 1937). • Premiere, Jerusalem Film Festival (2006) From Philadelphia to the Front Festival USA, 2005, 37 min, color DVD Purchase Directors: Judy Gelles & Marianne Bernstein Institutional Use DVD Purchase: $72 Public Exhibition DVD or Beta Rental: Call This Yiddish feature film musical drama marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe Oysher (Overture to Glory and The Singing Blacksmith, titles restored by The NCJF). Shot in Pennsylvania near the Pocono Mountains, the film features Oysher in the title role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side (the film includes rare glimpses of the Lower East Side and of 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater marquees of the period). While washing floors in a nightclub several years later he is “discovered” and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, Oysher's The National Center for Jewish Film For More Information: www.jewishfilm.org or (781) 736-8600 or (781) 899-7044 Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS 053 Waltham, Massachusetts 02454 VHS & DVD are for institutional use and do not include public performance rights. (781) 736-8600; [email protected] Call for 35mm, 16mm, Beta, Video, and DVD public performance rentals. 8/15/2006 Pr e v i e w tapes: $10 for shipping/handling . 2 Koussevitsky in We Who Remain (1946), Mordechai Hershman in . New Filmmakers Award, Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival The Voice of Israel (1931), Moishe Oysher in Overture to Glory (2005) (1940) and Louis "Leibele" Waldman in A Cantor on Trial (1931). Audience Favorite Documentary Short & Best Documentary, Second Place, Palm Springs IntnFest of Short Films (2005) These two new DVD productions include extras, including 7 . Best Documentary Short, Second Place, Warsaw Jewish Film additional cantorial pieces: "Oshamnu Mikol Om" by David Roitman; Festival (2005) "Kol Nidre" by Adolph Katchko; "Anenu" and "Shabbat Kiddush" . Washington D.C. Jewish Film Festival (2005); New York Jewish (conclusion) by Moishe Oysher; "ViY'rushalayim Ircho" by Moshe Film Festival (2006); Delray Beach Film Festival (2006); Rhode Koussevitsky; "Yarhzeit" and "Yiddishe Mamma" by Yossele Island International Film Festival (2005) Rosenblatt. One of the few documentaries to explore the stories of Jewish- American World War II soldiers, this film focuses on six Philadelphia The Holocaust Tourist: Festival veterans in their 80’s, and their individual experiences during the war and a bittersweet reunion they share in their old age. For Jews, the Whatever Happened To Never Again? DVD war to defeat Hitler had deeply personal significance. Combined with Purchase photographs from the men’s personal collections, the film includes UK, 2005, 10 min, color rare archival footage, stills, and newsreels including Jewish soldiers Director: Jes Benstock celebrating Shabbat and Passover during wartime and the first Jewish service at Dachau after it was liberated. Milton Dank, a noted Institutional Use DVD Purchase: $36 physicist and historian who flew glider planes in WWII, contributed Public Exhibition DVD or Beta Rental: Call hundreds of photographs he took on the front lines. Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival (2005); UK Jewish Film Festival Photographer Judy Gelles, who was very close to her father-in-law (2005); San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2006); Glasgow Sidney Gelles until his death in 1986, discovered a box of his World Jewish Film Festival (2006); NCJF’s Jewishfilm.2006 War II artifacts. In this box were Sidney's helmet, spats, tallis, dog tag, War Department manuals, photos, telegrams, and hundreds of letters to his future bride Clara. In these letters were hints of anti- semitism that he experienced during the five years that he served. He never talked about those years in the Army. This lack of information prompted Judy and her partner in the project photographer Marianne Bernstein to investigate the experiences of Jews who served in WW II. The film premiered at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia as part of A Soldier's Story: Intimate Artifacts of World War II, an exhibition of still photographs and letters.
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