THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, February 7 thru February 13, Directed by: Claude Lanzmann, Documentary, German w/English subtitles, 240 min
Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theater Lake Worth, FL
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THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, February 7 thru February 13, Directed by: Claude Lanzmann, Documentary, German w/English subtitles, 240 min
THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, February 7 thru February 13, Directed by: Claude Lanzmann, Documentary, German w/English subtitles, 240 min
In this epic film, acclaimed documentary director Claude Lanzmann (Shoa; Israel, Why) interviews the Elder Jew of the so-called model ghetto of Theresienstadt.
"Through the words and the story of Benjamin Murmelstein, a rabbi who took on an unbearable burden and came through it a pariah. Murmelstein's efforts to save Jews are revealed to be inseparable from his work, under Nazi authority, to preserve the sham of Theresienstadthe thinks of himself as a sort of Scheherazade who rescued Jews, and who rescued himself, by helping the Germans tell a propagandistic story. That astonishingly daring and dangerous moral calculus has a Biblical grandeur, horror, and authority." -Richard Brody, The New Yorker
The film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils. If you viewed the Margarethe von Trotta film "Hannah Arendt" earlier this year, this opus furthers the discussion of the so-called "banality of evil."
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Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theater (View)
709 Lake Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33460
United States
