THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Two Films Examine Nazi Era

By HERBERT G. LUFT

(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)_

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HOLLYWOOD —
"Madam Kitty," an
Italian-made film star-
ring the Swedish actress
Ingrid Thulin, Austrian
Helmut Berger, British
newcomer Terese Ann
Savoy, Yugoslav per-
former Bekim Fehmin,
John Ireland from the
United.States, the Italian
Stefano Satta Flores, and
Tina Aumont (daughter
of Jean Pierre Aumont),
has been shown to us pri-
vately by Trans-
--.American Films, the U.S.
‘distributors.
Director Tinto Brass
claims that the shocking
story of "Madam Kitty"
was derived from a com-
posite of documents col-
lected during the Nurem-
berg trials and found in
German and Allied lib-
raries after the war.
Brass is attempting to
show the depth of de-
humanization to which a

nation could sink under
the lust for power of the
individual.
Salon Kitty, a refined
house of pleasure in Ber-
lin in the mid-1930s, is
being bugged and -or-
ganized as a listening
post by the hierarchy of
the Third Reich to spy not
only on political enemies
but more so on "dedi-
cated" party members
and army officers who be-
fore or after an act of
lovemaking inadver-
tently might sputter out a
few remarks of dissatis-
faction, propose defection
or leak secret military in-
formation to unau-
thorized persons.
"Madam Kitty," set into
an ornate mansion of mar-
ble and mirrors, lays bare
the mentality behind the
facade of racial purity in
Nazi Germany. It illus-
trates that Hitler didn't
live up to his claim to end
depravity and perversion
and bring about an era of

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wholesome family life but
on the contrary, through
the example set by him and
his cohorts, initiated a
wave of sexual abbera-
tions, of homosexuality,
sadism and masochism.
Though a bit too rough
on the edges and often too
explicit, "Madam Kitty"
has a story to tell of valid-
ity to our time, one easily
forgotten when traveling
through the forests,
mountains, meadows and
lake areas of Germany
which seem to breathe
contentment, solemnity
and a deep religious feel-
ing.
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"Jacob the Liar," which
comes to us from the film
studios of East Berlin,
takes us from the refined,
though decayed atmos-
phere of the ruling clas-
ses of Nazi Germany to
the disinherited and dis-
franchised — the Jews
sealed off in the ghettos of
Poland who are_ con-
demned to starvation or
deportation towards the
extermination centers of
the East.
The title hero, beauti-
fully portrayed by Vlas-
timil Brodsky, is a simple
man who tries to interject
courage into the minds of
his fellow Jews by telling
them of Allied victories
he has heard about on a
radio which doesn't exist
and if it had been in oper-
ation could cost him his
life and endanger the
others.
There is an air of melan-
choly in the lyrically
phrased movie, a filmic vi-
sion which takes us, in
staccato images, back into
a better past and into a
happier, though unlikely
future.
The picture was made
by Defa (the former Ufa)
from a novel and
screenplay by Jurek
Becker, directed by
Frank Beyer, with a cast
of real faces of Jews and
their tormentors. Erwin
Geschonneck and Henry
Hubchen appear opposite
Brodsky (who won for this
performance the Best
Actor Award at the Ber-
lin Film Festival in 1976
— in itself an ironic twist
of fate).

Chile Pianist

Chilean pianist Claudio
Arrau will appear with
the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra 10:45 a.m. to-_
day, 8:30 p.m. Saturday
and 3:30 p.m. Sunday in
Ford Auditorium. Theo
Alcantara will conduct.
Tickets are available at
the Ford Auditorium box
office, Hudson's and
Montgomery Ward.

`Othello' to Open

Shakespeare's "Othello"
will open 8:30 p.m. Feb. 2
at the Hilberry Theatre,
with previews 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 28 and 29. Tickets
and schedules are availa-
ble by cailing the Hil-
berry box office, 577-2972.
Tickets also are available
at Hudson's, the Wayne
State University, High-
land Park Community
College and Oakland
University book stores.

Israeli Court Rules That Kol,
Hauser Must Return to Cabinet

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Independent Liberal
Party ministers Moshe
Kol and Gideon Hausner
attended the weekly
Cabinet meeting Sunday
after the Supreme Court
ruled that their resigna-
tions from the govern-
ment last month were in-
valid.

The court also upheld
Premier Yitzhak Rabin's
dismissal of the National
Religious Party minis-
ters, an act that let to the
resignation of his gov-
ernment and its trans-
formation into a
caretaker regime.

The
decision,
an-
nounced last Friday by
the five-judge panel con-
sisting of Justices Yoe'
Sussman, Zvi Berenson,
Yitzhak Kahan, BenZion

Origin of 'Chosen
People' Idea

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1976. JTA, Inc.)

The origin and meaning
of the idea that the Jews
are the "chosen people" is
often queried.
This concept is mentioned
as early as in the Bible.
(Amos 3:2) (Deuteronomy.
7:7, etc.). It is frequently
mentioned in talmudic and
Kabalistic literature.

In some places in the
Bible where the concept of
the chosen people is men-
tioned it is stressed that
there is a universalism in
humanity and that the Al-
mighty is the father of all
humanity (Exodus 19:5,
Isaiah 40:27), as well as
the Creator of all the Univ-
erse.

Generally, the idea of
being a chosen people never
was meant to imply any
feeling of exclusiveness. It is
intended to mean that the
Jews were chosen to "serve,"
to be held up as an example
and to bear even greater
criticism and responsibility,
and to carry the burden of
being the barometer of hu-
man conscience and the vic-
tim of human prejudice.

The Jew expresses this
"chosenness" when he owns
up to his added responsibili-
ties such as when making
kidush on the Sabbath
which is distinctively Jew-
ish, or holidays, or when
reading the Holy Torah,
which is distinctively Jew-
ish, or when proclaiming his
unswerving faith in the idea
of one and only one God,
which was originally Juda-
ism's greatest contribution
to humanity.

Concert Slated

West Bloomfield Sym-
phony Orchestra will per-
form 7:30 p.m. Sunday at
West Bloomfield High
School. The program will
feature a saxophone con-
certo and Robert Gray
who will sing selections
from Wagner. For tickets,
call the symphony office,
626-7337.

Shershevsky and Shlomo
Asher, tied up the loose
ends of December's gov-
ernment crisis.

Berenson, who deli-
vered the opinion, said the
court agreed with Attor-
ney General Aharon
Barak that Rabin's resig-
nation Dec. 21, several
hours after Kol and
Hausner quit the coalition
government, froze the
Cabinet.

Under Israeli law, no
Member may resign from
a caretaker government.
The law also states that
resignations do not be-
come effective until 48
hours after they are sub-
mitted and announced to
the Knesset.

Kol, the Minister of
Tourism, and Hausner,
Minister - Without -
Portfolio, said they would
abide by the court's deci-
sion. But they stressed
that their political dif-
ferences with Rabin's
Labor Alignment were
not resolved.

Friday, January 21, 1977 31

One has not the impud-
ence to deny a debt a credi-
tor-to his face.
—Shebuoth 42.

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