Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:30 pm.
Carefree Theatre
Canada, 1999. Arnie Lipsey, Director.
English. 5 minutes.

This animated film about marriage and tradition is set to a classic Yiddish song performed Russian-style by Michael Alpert and Kapelye.

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SOUTHEAST U.S.A PREMIERE
France/Netherlands, 1999. Pierre-Henry Salfati, Director.
English and Russian w/ English subtitles. 58 minutes, Beta video.

This fascinating documentary explores the extraordinary life of Eddie Rosner whom Louis Armstrong nicknamed the "White Louis Armstrong." A wandering Jew who moved through the history of Jazz, Europe, and the Soviet Empire, Rosner began as a child prodigy violinist in Berlin, but was drawn to the jazz of African Americans. Once the Nazis took power, he fled east to Russia with Ruth Kaminska, his wife and actress Ida Kaminska's daughter. There, Stalin honored him as a State Musician only to banish him to Siberia after the war because of his Jewishness. Using rare recordings, archival footage, and accounts from contemporaries, this film chronicles the adventures of someone who experienced it all: fame, exile, horror, genius, and poverty but never lost his love of jazz.