| Sunday Mar 30, 2014 3:30 PM - Sunday Mar 30, 2014 7:05 PM | $10.00 - $12.00 |
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The Last of The Unjust - NCJF Special Screening
"A historic film." --The New Yorker
"A monumental film." --Film Comment
"Fascinating and Impressive... portrait of an individual whose actions still defy comprehension, and the self-portrait of an artist consumed by the past." --The New York Times
"Utterly fascinating. A reminder of another way documentaries can be made: simply, agonizingly, without comedy or narcissism, and with unforgettable, almost unbearable power." -- Esquire
"This is a mesmerizing film." --Wolf's Entertainment Guide
With Shoah, Claude Lanzmann (87 and still going strong) re-oriented our understanding of the defining event of the 20th century. Three decades after that cinematic milestone, he does so once again, from an entirely new personal, historical and aesthetic perspective.
At the new film's center is Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia and the only "Elder of the Jews" not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto.
In a series of interviews Lanzmann shot in 1975, the brilliant, charismatic Murmelstein, a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller, candidly reflects on his unique historical role, one for which he was both demonized and celebrated. Lanzmann new epic documentary provides an incisive view of a complex, beguiling character and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils.
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LocationWest Newton Cinema (View)
1296 Washington Street
West Newton, MA 02465
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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