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Saturday, November 4th - 7:30 AM
FEAR OF FELIX NUSSBAUM
This documentary pieces together the quest for the
forgotten and hidden art of Felix Nussbaum, a
German Jewish artist who perished in the Holocaust.
What is remarkable is that the campaign to resurrect
Nussbaum's works, and build a museum to house
them, is spearheaded by the mayor of Osnabruck,
Nussbaum's home town. It is the same town that
ostracized him over fifty years ago and watched as the
Nazis transported Jews to their graves.
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Saturday, November 5th - 6:00 AM
SAMUEL BAK: PAINTER OF QUESTIONS
In September 2001, painter Samuel Bak returned to
Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) with his wife and
daughters. They walked the streets of the old Ghetto,
visited the forest where his father and grandparents
were murdered, and opened a retrospective exhibit of
his work. There, among the tall trees of the Ponari
forest, Bak's life came full circle. This documentary
explores his work and life through the lens of his
childhood experiences. Young Samuel was declared a
child prodigy painter, but the day his family was
marched into the Jewish Ghetto, his artistic vision
changed forever. Saved from the death camps by his
father, the miracle of his survival became, and still is,
the recurring theme in his art. In addition to Bak, distinguished
Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer and
gallery owner Bernard Pucker, one of Bak's most
important supporters, speak about the meaning and
importance of his work.
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Sunday, November 5th - 9:00 PM
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
This unforgettable fable seeks to prove that love, family
and imagination conquer all. In 1930s Italy, a carefree
Jewish bookkeeper named Guido starts a fairy
tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman
from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and
live happily together until the occupation of Italy by
German forces. In an attempt to hold his family
together and help his son survive the horrors of a
concentration camp, Guido imagines that the
Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning
is a tank. Winner of three Academy Awards,
including Best Foreign Film (1999).
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Wednesday, November 8th - 1:00 AM
THE LAST METRO
Set in occupied Paris in 1942, an actress married to a
Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the
Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
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Wednesday, November 8th - 3:00 AM
FEAR OF FELIX NUSSBAUM
This documentary pieces together the quest for the
forgotten and hidden art of Felix Nussbaum, a
German Jewish artist who perished in the Holocaust.
What is remarkable is that the campaign to resurrect
Nussbaum's works, and build a museum to house
them, is spearheaded by the mayor of Osnabruck,
Nussbaum's home town. It is the same town that
ostracized him over fifty years ago and watched as the
Nazis transported Jews to their graves.
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