Sophia, Loren's Role as 'Judith'

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD - Kurt Unger, age of 11 had escaped Nazi per- chael Hayes prepared the final
the Berlin-born producer of the secution-reaching the shores of shooting script.

motion picture, "Judith," at the Palestine with his family in 1933.
The idea for his movie was stimul-
ated by his own experience and
long latent in his mind until he,
while in Rome during 1962, dis-
cussed the theme, a modern-day
NOW SHOWING
love story woven around the bibli-
cal character of "Judith," with
producer Carlo Ponti and his act-
ress-wife Sophia Loren. Unger en-
visioned the yarn against the back-
ground of partitioning of the Holy
Land in 1947 and the subsequent
battle for life of the new State
of Israel.
Unger had written his outline
with Sophia Loren in mind, though
Ponti himself was not participat-
ing in the venture. Lawrence Dur-
rell developed the thin story into
a still unpublished novel and de-
riVed his own screen treatment
from the work of fiction. John Mi-

"Judith" now has been press-
previewed at Paramount Studios
in Hollywood and received with
mixed emotions, though technical-
ly the motion picture gained high
praise for staging of mass scenes,
special effects, photography and
for the sensitive score by com-
poser Sol Kaplan.
I am sure that the original
adaptation presented to Mr. and
Mrs. Ponti and received with so
much enthusiasm must have been
less obvious, less pretentious and
less flag-waving. In the • current
epic that unfolds on the screen,
the sole obstacle to the success of
the 1948 war for independence
seems to be one tank commander
formerly in Germany's Africa
Corps who has the key to victory
or defeat. The audience is made to
believe that the Israelis are in
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only in the country as illegal im-
migrants aaginst the will of the
British. This interpretation plays
into the hands of the Arabs.
Daniel Mann directed the mo-
WICK SUMMING
tion picture "Judith" in its entire-
ty on location in Israel, with most
of the action centering around a
barren rock-strewn hill near the
ROBERT JONATHAN
Lebanese border where a kibbutz
of the 1948 vintage had to be con-
MORSE WINTERS
structed by the Hollywood movie
company. While Mann interjected
vivid life into the sequences de-
picting the landings of European
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fugitives and the blood and thun-
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der of battle, he remained artifi-
cial in his guidance of the interna-
co
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tional set of stars. Sophia Loren,
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oddly enough the "Jewish" wife
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of a "Nazi" war criminal, was not
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believable as Judith Auerbach, a
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graduate of Dachau with the num-
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eral tatooed on her arm. To us,
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she still reflected basically the per-
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tive settlements showing good will
and a spirit of benevolence. Peter
Finch gave a good characterization
as Haganah leader Aaron Stein
and Jack Hawkins was well-cast
as very-British Major Lawton. For
the part of the Nazi villain, pro-
ducer Unger selected the all-too-
sympathetic screen-n e w c o m e r
The first major British
Hans Verner, a charming contin-
film photographed
ental for whom the public will root
in Communist China.
as a hero.
For Americans...
* * *
David Opatoshu, who portrayed
the obsessed Irgun leader in "Ex-
odus," has been signed by Alfred
Hitchcock for a featured role in
Felix Greene's
"Torn Curtain," now before the
cameras at Universal with Paul
Newman, Julie Andrews and Lila
Kedrova in the leading parts. Opa-
toshu will be seen on the screen
as
an East German underground
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leader who helps smuggle New-
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man and Julie out of a Communist
SHOWTIME: "CHINA"
controlled country. In "Exodus"
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the situation was reversed when
Livernois
Newman saved Opatoshu from the
at 6 Mile
ar& Cinema
wrath of his enemies.
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Opatoshu, with whom we spent
some time in Israel five years ago
during filming of DeLaurentis'
"The Best of Enemies,'' is a
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He made his motion picture debut
in 1947 in Mark Hellingers' Naked
City." Last year, he completed in
Israel "Rebels Against the Light"
opposite Hollywood's Diane Baker
and British actor Tom Bell.
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Revive Anti-Semitic Theme

Hans Habe, who spent the war
years in Hollywood, is writing the
screenplay for a new, denazified
version of Lion Feuchtwanger's
"Jud Suess," returning the epic
to the author's original concept
expressed in the earlier Conrad
Veldt movie made in England
around 1933. Berlin film producer
Hans Oppenheimer is trying to re-
establish our sympathy for the
character of "Jew Suess" so gross-
ly distorted by director Veit Har-
lan in the wartime-second edition
made for the purpose of Ger-
many's anti-Semitic propaganda.

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