The Counterfeiters Die Fälscher Austria/Germany, 2007 German, Russian, Hebrew, English Subtitles 98 Minutes Directors: Stefan Ruzowitsky
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Tuesday, March 31 7:30 pm The Counterfeiters Die Fälscher Austria/Germany, 2007 German, Russian, Hebrew, English subtitles 98 minutes Directors: Stefan Ruzowitsky This compelling feature film is based on the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested and then being sent to a German concentration camp in 1944, Sal is forced to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to flood and destroy the Allied economies. “Operation Bernhard” was born. It became the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times. As the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. Over 130 million pounds sterling were printed, under conditions that couldn’t have been more tragic or spectacular. They hoped to use the duds to flood the enemy economy and fill the empty war. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and the outside world, and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiter’s workshop. The prisoners had a choice: if they cooperated with the enemy, they had a chance to survive, as first-class prisoners in a “golden cage” with enough to eat and a bed to sleep in. If they sabotaged the operation, a sure death awaited them. For the counterfeiters, it was not only a question of saving their own lives, but also about saving their conscience as well. Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards, 2008 Golden Bear Award Nomination, Berlin International Film Festival, 2007 Best Supporting Actor, German Film Awards, 2007 Best Feature, Best Screenplay Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominations, German Film Awards, 2007 14A (not recommended for children, violence, disturbing content) TICKETS: *Prices include GST Individual Six Pack: Ten Pack: Festival Pass: Ticket: Choose SIX different films Choose TEN different films Access to ALL festival films $8 M / $9 NM $42 M / $48 NM $70 M / $80 NM $90 M / $100 NM Pass-holders must arrive no later than 15 minutes before show time in order to ensure seating. Rush Seating. No refunds or exchanges on tickets, packages or passes. Films subject to classification Rady Jewish Community Centre 123 Doncaster Street 477-7510 www.radyjcc.com – Click on Ticket Central March 182009 March 31 Berney Theatre Tickets/Info: 477-7510 www.radyjcc.com – Click on Ticket Central Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster Street Rady Jewish Community Centre Berney Theatre Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster St. Wednesday, March 18 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19 7:30 p.m. Dear Mr. Waldman Blessed is the Match: Michtavim Le America The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh Israel, 2006 Hebrew, English subtitles Hungary, Israel, USA, Czech Republic, 2008 90 minutes 85 minutes Director: Hanan Peled Director: Roberta Grossman A moving coming-of-age feature film written and directed by the son of Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is survivors, Dear Mr. Waldman beautifully captures the milieu of mid-century the Match is the first documentary about Hannah Senesh, the World Israel and the irregularities of growing up amid the emotional wreckage of War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance the Holocaust. In the early 1960s, Hilik, a Tel Aviv ten-year-old, shares his fighter and modern-day heroine. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah brother's goal in life: to make their parents happy and make up for the joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only anguish they endured in the Holocaust. Meanwhile Moishe, Hilik’s father, outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah chooses to believe that his son from his first marriage didn't die in parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately Auschwitz and somehow escaped to America as is now advisor to President executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the Kennedy. Superbly written and acted, Dear Mr. Waldman is entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her a drama about the impact of profound loss on the advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate intimacies of family and friendship and the restorative attempt to save her daughter. With unprecedented access to the power of love and compassion. Senesh family archive and through interviews, eyewitness accounts and the prolific writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh, Blessed is Nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, the Match recreates Hannah’s mission and imprisonment. The film Awards of the Israeli Film Academy, 2006 explores Hannah’s childhood against the backdrop of significant Audience Award, Reheboth Beach historical events resulting in a rich portrait with several interlocking Independent Film Festival, 2007 strands. But perhaps what brings us closest to this brave young Official Selection, Palm Springs Film Festival, 2007 woman are the letters she wrote to her mother, which capture a Blessed is the Match: Official Selection, Munich Film Festival, 2007 Dear Mr. Waldman daughter’s hopes and dreams for herself and her people. The Life and Death of 14A (not recommended for children) Hannah Senesh Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary, Washington and Hong Kong Film Festivals, 2008 PG 2 3 Saturday, March 21 9:00 p.m. Sunday, March 22 1:00 p.m. Someone to Run With As Seen Through These Eyes Mishehu Larutz Ito USA, 2007 Israel, 2006 English Hebrew, English subtitles 70 minutes 118 minutes Director: Hilary Helstein Director: Oded Davidoff This captivating feature film is based on the best-selling novel by This revealing documentary is a never-before-seen window into the surviving internationally acclaimed writer David Grossman. Someone to Run With art and artists of the Holocaust. It is the award-winning story of humanity’s captures the unrelenting pace and suspense of the original novel as it darkest era as drawn by those who fought back through brush, pen and hand. winds the audience into a break-neck ride thought the streets of Jerusalem Pulitzer Prize nominated poet, Maya Angelou tells the story of a brave group at the end of a dog leash. Assaf, a shy, awkward seventeen year old, is of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil yanked from his mundane summer job and given an impossible task: to stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists track down the owner of a lost Labrador found wandering the city streets. took their fate into their own hands to make a powerful statement about the As he follows the dog on its circuitous rounds, Assaf begins to piece human spirit, enduring against unimaginable odds. It features the children of together the incredible account behind the owner’s disappearance, one that Terezin and Dina Babbitt, personal artist to Dr. Mengele. Score features captures his imagination and draws him in: the story of a girl named Tamar. music by Sony’s Anna Nalick and Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics. One month earlier, Tamar, a gifted musician, embarks with her dog on a desperate quest into Jerusalem’s seamy underworld, and becomes Audience Award for Best Foreign Feature ensnared in its dark clutches. Assaf, smitten by the mysterious girl he has Documentary, Thessaloniki Documentary never met, has no choice but to set off on a run in Tamar’s footsteps. The Festival, 2008 engaging film follows Assaf and Tamar on parallel timelines, highlighting the Bronze Phoenix Award, Jury Prize for Best distance between them and the loneliness they must endure until their Documentary, Warsaw International Film narratives finally converge. For the two, this will be an accelerated journey Festival of Jewish Motifs, 2008 into adulthood, a test of courage and commitment and a story of self- Best Film Overall, International Jewish Film discovery and first love. A heartfelt and surprising hopeful story, it was the Festival in Argentina, 2008 As Seen Through Someone to Run With first Israeli film to open the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2006. Best Documentary, (FIJCES) International Jewish Film Festival in Santiago, Chile, 2008 These Eyes Grand Jury Prize and Special Jury Prize, Miami Film Festival, 2007 Best Feature Documentary in Central Coast Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Competition, San Luis Obispo International Best Director, Best Editing Awards of the Israeli Film Academy, 2006 Film Festival, 2008 Nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Music, Best Sound Best Documentary Miami Jewish Film Festival, Awards of the Israeli Film Academy, 2006 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, 2008 18A (coarse language, substance abuse) 14A (not recommended for children) 4 5 Sunday, March 22 4:00 pm /Sunday, March 29 4:00 pm Sunday, March 22 7:30 p.m. The Case for Israel: It All Begins At Sea Democracy’s Outpost Hakol Mathil Bayam USA, 2008 Israel, 2008 FREE SCREENINGS Hebrew English subtitles English Tickets available } 77 minutes { at the door only. 96 minutes Directors: Michael Yohay Director: Eitan Green Led by famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, the documentary The Case for Israel is a The feature film It All Begins At Sea is a coming-of-age story of the Goldstein point-by-point defense of the Jewish State. Utilizing archival footage and compelling family - mother, father and son; an Israeli family coping with a familiar array interviews with top experts, the film presents a stirring rebuttal to growing of life experiences - friendship, love, sex, death. criticism from the media, and academic and international communities. In The film comprises three episodes: the first occurs at the seashore, the particular, Dershowitz challenges former President Jimmy Carter and his second unfolds in Ashkelon National Park among the ancient statues and provocative book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which drew fire for ruins, and the third takes us to the family's new home into which they have characterizing Israeli policy in the territories as an apartheid system.