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Florida Premiere
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1:30 pm
Sweden, 2004; Jon Haukeland & Tore Vollan, directors
Swedish w/English subtitles; 60 minutes
This fascinating documentary represents a big chunk of untold Holocaust history in Norway that still remains unknown. Moritz Rabinowitz, a Polish Jewish merchant, came to Haugesund, a mid-sized seaport where he built up the largest department store and clothing manufacturing business in Scandinavia. A well-known anti-Hitler activist, he was the number-one target when the Germans invaded Norway. The fact that he was captured after he couldn’t leave his daughter behind is one emotional kicker; the other is the suggestion that despite his love for his adopted town, a lingering, if mild, anti-Semitism towards him still remains.
Together with...
The School Photo
Florida Premiere
Sweden, 2002; Gabriella Bier, director
Swedish w/ English subtitles; 37 minutes
Once a dork, always a dork? Eager to re-examine what it was like to be a 12-year old in a Jewish school in Stockholm in the 1970s, the director contacts her schoolmates to see what they remember and what they’ve become. We meet Allen, still as cocky as ever, the gorgeous-looking Jeannette, the blond beauty Liora, and the director herself, moody and
flat-chested.
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