r 24 Friday, Duly 1,1978 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `The Passage' Depicts Holocaust Tragedy Israel Concerned Over Lebanon TEL AVIV (JTA) — Al- though the visit of Vice President Walter Mondale overshadowed all other bus- iness, the Cabinet was forced to take up the rapidly deteriorating situation in Lebanon where Syrian forces are shelling Christ- ians and the Christians, di- vided into hostile groups, are fighting each other. At the close of its weekly session, which was some- what shorter than usual, the Cabinet issued a state- ment saying that "The gov- ernment of Israel expresses its deep concern over the re- peated attacks on the Chris- tians and over the great de- terioration of the situation in northern Lebanon." Meanwhile, there were reports from south Leba- non, now occupied by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), that the Palestinian ter- rorists were bracing for a re- taliatory attack by Israel for the bombing in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market. Israeli Fly-Over Warns Syrians Seven Israeli Jets were flown over Beirut on Wednesday as a warming that Israel will protect the Christian Lebanese who are now under at- tack there by Syrian "peace keeping" forces. More than 150 Christians have died in the Syrian attacks. Al's Foreign Car Service SPECIALIST !NI VOLKSWAGEN AND PORSCHE CARS CALL . 548-3926 548-4160 541-9704 1018 W. 9 Mile Rd. Aliens G. Rehm, FERNDALE MICH. Illet ■ rwen Lovornees Ponetsurst By HERBERT G. LUFT HOLLYWOOD — "The Passage," a motion picture now completed in the craggy, snow-topped moun- tain peaks of the Pyrenees and in the studios of Nice, deals with tragic events on the sideline of World War II — the escape of fugitives from Nazi oppression through Vichy-France, a territory factually control- led by the German army, into Spain and Portugal for a chance to board a ship for America. The picture is based on a novel- by Bruce Nicolaysen with - the author supplying his own screenplay, directed by J. Lee Thompson and produced by John Quested in association with Lester Goldsmith and Maurice Binder for the British Hem- dale Film Group. It tells us of the perilous passage into Spain by a scientist (James Mason), his wife (Patricia Neal) and two children por- trayed by Kay Lenz and Paul Clemens (son of Eleanor Parker) who are re- lentlessly pursued by an SS officer (Malcolm McDowell) and a wolfpack of his blackshirted Germans. EMERGENCY Over 45 Years Of Moving Experience POTTER MOVING & STORAGE CO. NUMBER 0 ALLIED VAN LINES AGENT IN MICHIGAN 2253 Col. 1300 N. 0•111 9000 ROYAL OAK 541.3310 - (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) 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When Fr- ance was overrun in 1940, hundreds of thousands of refugees, Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, anti- fascists from central Europe and the Low countries fled by foot and in small vehicles towards the Spanish border to es- cape torture, imprison- ment and ultimate death. They were stopped at the foot of the Pyrenees and most of them perished in the camps of St. Cyprie and De Gurs. My own brother was among those interned by the Vichy-French au- thorities. Last year, I visited again his grave and those of his compatriots, all of them members of the resistance, at the cemetery in Perpig- nan. I drove over to the sea- site resort of St. Cyprienne, a majestic range of moun- tains perpetually covered by a slight mist. It is hard to believe that this is the location where thousands upon thousands of brave men died of hunger and disease while the world looked on indifferently. * "Ashanti," an epic about modern-day slave trading in Ghana and in the Middle East, is now photographed on actual and simulated locations in Kenya, with further scenes to be shot in Israel which on the screen will represent Arab counries. It is based on a screenplay by Stephen Geller and a novel by A. Vasquez-Figueroa with 29-year-old Georges- Alain Vuille, heretofore the largest movie theater owner in Switzerland, making his bow as pro- ducer. Since the picture went be- fore the cameras, there have been a great number of changes. Director Richard Sarafian has been replaced by Richard Fleischer. Wil- liam Holden portrays the part of a helicopter pilot who is killed in an attempt to save the wife of a British doctor, thereby taking over from James Coburn who in- herited the part from Telly Savalas. Omar Sherif, announced as co-star of the picture, .withdrew from the cast when he learned that his scenes would be shot in Is- Zenda" (with James K. rael. He now is rejoining the Hackett), will now be re- cast when the company made in a different vein, moves to Rome. Holden ar- "Tess" by Roman rives early this month in Polanski now residing in Jerusalem to complete his Paris and working in a role in Israel. French studio; and Sharif seems to be wor- "Zenda," the Anthony ried about reactions in Arab Hope classic with a countries both in regard to screenplay by Dick Cle- the contents of the picture ment and Ian La Frenais in which he is to portray a to be produced by Walter nomad chief who teams up Mirisch with photo- with an English doctor graphy to commence in (Michael Caine) to track mid-July in Vienna with down a ruthless slave trader Richard Quine directing. Since strongly-willed named Suleiman (Peter Us- tinov) — and as to a per- Roman Polanski always sonal appearance on the set writes his own scenario, the in Israel though his compat- sentimental yarn of "Tess of riot, President Sadat, did the Storm County" will be just the same in perfect something entirely diffe- harmony. rent in the new version, in- Attacked in the Cairo cidentally the third produc- press for his portrayal of tion based on the novel. Fanny Brice's husband in "Zenda" is announced as a "Funny Girl," Sharif evi- comedy version of the often dently doesn't want to take filmed adventure yarn with a new chance to antagonize Peter Sellers portraying a his former countrymen. (A dual role. * * * Hollywood columnist re- cently claimed that Sharif Ron Leibman, hereto- had received threats from fore mostly portrayed laconic cops on the motion the PLO.) Others in the cast of picture screen, turns into a "Ashanti" are Rex Harri- fast-talking labor organizer son, Nigerian-born Olu who goes from New York to Jacobs, Indian actor Zia Alabama to unionize the Mohyeddin, Swiss film star textile industry in 20th Jean-Luc Rideau, Black Century Fox's "Norma Rae" youth Tyrone Jackson and termed a contemporary love our own television's Beverly story in which he portrays one of the two men romanti- Todd. ■ * * cally involved with a work- Two silent classics, ing class woman (Sally first produced more than Field). The picture, in its en- 60 years ago by Messrs. Adolph Zukor and Jesse tirety, is being shot in the L. Lasky, namely "Tess of deep south with Martin Ritt the Storm County" (the directing from a screenplay Mary Pickford starrer) by Irving Ravetch and Har- and "The Prisoner of riet Frank, Jr. Germany's Genscher in Israel TEL AVIV (JTA) — West Germany's Foreign Minis- ter, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, ended his two- day visit to Israel Friday after an hour-long meeting with Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Their discussion repor- tedly focused on the pros- pects of renewed peace talks and efforts to maintain con- tacts between Israel and Egypt until the talks can be resumed. Weizman told the Ger- man diplomat that people tend to forget that for 30 years the Arab majority at- tacked the Israeli minority but nevertheless, Israel is often branded the aggres- sor. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan saw Genscher off at Ben- Gurion Airport. Genscher told reporters at the airport that he had had open and useful talks with Israeli leaders. Dayan said the questions of peace in the Middle East and its implications for the European com- munity and the Common Market were discussed. Dayan observed that West Germany's attitude on the Palestinian question does not deviate from that adopted by the nine member states of the European Economic Community (EEC), which West Ger- many will chair. Before he left, Genscher met with a delegation of widows of the Israeli Olym- pic athletes killed in the 1972 Munich massacre. They demanded indemnifi- cation from the Bonn gov- ernment. Service Center for NY Elderly NEW YORK (JTA) — A new center for community services and continuing services for the aged is being planned in Manhat- tan by the Jewish Associa- tion for Services for the Aged, a federation agency. To be named the Margu- erite and Maurice A. Hexter building, the site is pre- sently occupied by the Heb- rew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform seminary, which plans to relocate in the New York University area. Theodore H. Silbert, JASA chairman, said in ad- dition to cultural events and concerts in the new facility, it will also serve as the Manhattan Community Service office to provide comprehensive social ser- vices, counseling and out- reach programs. The old maid who marries becomes a young wife.