University of Isilichigan
Celebration of
Jewish Arts
presents:
The Two of Us 1968. Directed by
Claude Berri. With Michel Simon,
Alain Cohen, Luce Fabiole. French
film of a Jewish boy who flees oc-
cupied Paris.
Under the Earth 1986. Directed
by Beda Ocampo Feijoo, Juan
Bautista Stagnaro. With Victor
Laplace. Argentine-Czech film of
Polish Jews forced to live in the
underground, in hiding from the
Nazis.
Voyage of the Damned 1976.
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
With Faye Dunaway, Max von
Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm
McDowell, Orson Welles and
many more. Based on the novel by
Gordon Thomas and Maz Morgan-
Witts. Almost two thousand Ger-
man-Jewish refugees are refused
permission into Cuba, and are
forced to sail back.
The Wannsee Conference
1984. Directed by Heinz Schirk.
With Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd
Brockmann, Friedrich Beckhaus.
Chronicle of the conference in
which Nazi members decided the
logistics of the Final Solu-
tion: in 14 minutes. Based
on the secretary's notes.
The White Rose 1983. Di-
rected by Michael Verho-
even (see The Nasty Girl).
With Lena Stolze, Wulf
Kessler, Oliver Siebert.
True story of dissident stu-
dents in Munich who dis-
tributed leaflets telling of
the atrocities of the con-
centration camps, and
were later captured by the
Gestapo.
YIDDISH
American Matchmaker
(Amerikaner Shadkhn)
farm's failure forces them to be
separated.
God, Man and Devil 1949. Di-
rected by Joseph Seiden. With
Mikhal Mikhalesko, Gustav Berg-
er. A poor Torah scribe's greed
brings betrayal to his family and
community.
Green Fields (Grine Felder)
1937. Directed by Jacob Ben-Ami.
With Michael Goldstein, Herschel
Bernardi, Helen Beverly. Based
on the story by Peretz Hirschbein.
A Torah scholar leaves the syna-
gogue to "find" himself.
Lynn. With Celia Adler, Anna Lil-
lian, Morris Strassberg. Immi-
gration of Jews to the New World
brings misfortune and loss of fam-
ily ties.
Yiddle with the Fiddle (Yidl
Mitn Fidl) 1936. Directed by
Joseph Green. With Molly Picon,
Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk. Yid-
dish vaudeville in which a young
woman travels the countryside dis-
guised as a man.
DEFY CLASSIFICATION
The Fixer 1968. Directed by John
Joseph Green. With Berta Ger-
sten, Lucy Gehrman, Misha
Gehrman, Edmund Zayenda. A
Jewish mother takes her family
from Polish Ukraine to New York
in search of a better life.
Frankenheimer. With Alan Bates,
Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown,
Hugh Griffith. Based on Bernard
Malamud's Pulitzer-winning nov-
el and adapted for the screen by
the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo.
True story of a Jewish man in
1911 Russia who's accused of mur-
dering a non-Jewish boy.
The Light Ahead 1939. Direct-
The Golem 1920. Directed
A Letter to Mama (A Brivele
der Mamen) 1938. Directed by
ed by Edgar G. Ulmer. With David
Opatoshu, Isadore Cashier, Helen
Beverly. Based on the stories of
Mendele Mokher Seforim. Two
by Paul Wegener. With Paul
Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst
Deutsch. A rabbi tries to save the
Jews of medieval Prague by bring-
ing a clay figure to life.
The Thfiltrator 1995. Di-
rected by John MacKenzie.
With Oliver Platt, Arliss
Howard, Alan King. Based
on the book In Hitler's
Shadow by Yaron Svoray
and Nick Taylor. Made-for-
cable film of the true story
of an Israeli journalist who
gets caught up in a politi-
cal web when covering the
neo-Nazi movement in
Berlin.
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"Spock In the Diaspora"
Wednesday, January 29, 1997
8:00 pm, Hill Auditorium
University of Michigan
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Jewish Film at Bran-
deis University
1940. With Leo Fuchs, Ju-
dith Abarbanel. A match-
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