`Tear in the Ocean' Story of Jewish Resistance Somewhere out there is a good Christian who can't understand why the Jews get so embarrassingly emotional over Israel. Let him see "A Tear in the Ocean." Few films, if any, have conveyed with such poignancy the Jews' will to live. Now showing in a brief en- gagement at the Tel-Ex Cinema I, "A Tear in the Ocean" dramatizes the re- sistance of a handful of Jews in a fictional Polish village prior to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. The fact that the village- Wolyna — is a figment of novelist Manes Sperber's imagination is of no account. There were innumerable Wolynas where Jews, steeped in the faith of their fathers, 26 Friday, December 7, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — ro o had to make the judgment: to die fighting or in submis- sion. Henri Glaeser, who pro- duced and directed the film on location in Alsace, cast himself in the role of the Tzadik of Wolyna. As one of the last survivors, he chooses nonviolent resistance: dying at the hands of his oppres- sors but never surrendering the spiritual and moral film produced in France, teachings of his religion— with English subtitles. Based "We alone resisted the desire on the novel by Manes Sper- to become like our enemies." ber, it received the Grand It is for men like Edi Prix 1973 of the French Rubin (Alexandre Stere), an Academy of Motion Pictures Austrian physician who and the Prix Amitie 1972. COCKTAILS BEING SERVED For information on special scorns the piety of the hasi- group showings, call 354-9662 dim, to meet violence with violence. Rubin gathers Monday through Friday from Featuring Food Prepared Before You around him a tiny regiment 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Businessmen's Luncheons • Complete Dinners of 17 men and boys — in- 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. cluding the Tzadik's son—to There never was a good 16825 MIDDLEBELT Arthur Miller Drama join the Polish partisans in war nor a bad peace.—Ben- Closed Mondays 427-3170 Just South of a Mile Television at Its Beset their forest hideaway. jamin Franklin. The incongruity of their Another Holocaust drama of indisputable excellence situation is summed up by .w a s presented Wednesday an underground fighter watching a black-garbed evening on Channel 56. Arthur Miller, who adapted hasid carry his violin case his "Incident at Vichy" for into the partisan headquar- television, chose occupied ters: "Look, he fights with a France as the locale for his fiddle!" Of what use is Rubin's pungent commentary on the gesture? The title conveys complicity of good men. He places an Austrian something of the depth of the nobleman among the group dilemma: What can be more of Jews awaiting interroga- futile than a tear in the tion by a German "professor ocean . . . And 6,000,000 of r a c i a l anthology." The tears . . . ? prince's gesture of humanity Nowhere is the pain of this at the end lends a hopeful choice more evident than in note, but it does little to dis- Bynie, the Tzadik's 16-year- pel the words of a Jewish old son and "the last rabbi doctor about his oppressors: of Wolyna." Dominique Rol- "I don't speak this way be- lin portrays with exquisite cause they are Germans — reserve this child whose but because they are people." wisdom impresses even the Stacy Keach directed this peasants. Roman Skarbek superb TV presentation. (Armand Abplanalp), the Served from 1 2 Noon — C.D. "good goy" Polish aristocrat Til 9 p.m. who heads the underground, describes Bynie as "16 years and 30 centuries" old. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK This film is damning of those good folk who, while 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. CANTONESE-AMERICAN fighting the Nazis, cooper- ated with them in achieving RESTAURANT the goal of Judenrein. Why Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. OPEN should the Jews have guns? Sat., 11 a.m. - 12 mid. 7 DAYS Sun., 12 Noon - 10 p.m. Guns belong to the Polish patriots; let the Jews fight • DAILY LUNCHEONS • FINE DINNERS with their books. • COMPLETE CARRY OUT The Warsaw Ghetto Up- 29295 SOUTHFIELD Just North of 12 Mile rising defied that image — IN THE FARRELL S PLAZA 3 57-43 2 1 but it was not the only inci- dent of resistance by the Jews. This film about "the last Enjoy the New and Different Jews of Wolyna" captures in microcosm the many times Tantalizing Tastes of when Jews, rising above the insanity around them, tri- umphed over their op- pressors. —C.D. 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