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the producer's next release will be One
Day in September, referring to the ter-
rorist attack on Israeli athletes at the
1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
ven for an international film
For the feature film to follow the
producer and inveterate trav-
documentary
at the Shanghai festival,
eler, Arthur Cohn has recent-
Cohn
had
originally
selected his 1995
ly covered a lot of territory
with
Al Pacino.
Two
Bits,
movie
During the last week in October,
government
officials in
However,
the Chinese government and film
The
Garden
of the
Beijing insisted on
industry feted the winner of five
the
1971
classic
about
Finzi-Continis,
Oscars and producer of The Garden of
family
Italian
Jewish
an
aristocratic
the Finzi-Continis and Central Station
that is ultimately destroyed by the fas-
at his very own "Arthur Cohn Day"
cists.
He used the occasion of a retro-
Cohn says that he took the
spective of his works at the
Beijing fiat as a signal that
Shanghai International Film Filmmaker Arthur
the theme of the Holocaust
Festival to premiere his lat-
Cohn, left, receives
has
been openly recognized
the Medal of
est documentary, Children
by
the
Chinese government
Shanghai from Ye
of the Night.
for
the
first time."
Zhi Kang
Conceived as a cinematic
His
reception
in Shanghai
memorial to the 1.3 million of China's Ministry
was remarkable, as the press
of
Culture.
Jewish children who per-
and public mobbed him as if
ished in the Holocaust —
he were a rock star. More
and their rescue from the
than
130
journalists
covered his news
anonymity of statistics — the film res-
conference,
during
which
a giant ban-
urrects the faces of its subjects, some-
ner
abcve
his
head
proclaimed
"World
times at play, more often ragged and
Famous Producer Arthur Cohn" in
starving.
Chinese and English.
Although the film is only 18 min-
For the screening itself, Chinese fans
utes long, Cohn spent three years
fought
for tickets to the 2,000 seat the-
scouring archives across the world for
ater.
When
the two films ended, the
material for it.
audience
sat,
as if stunned, for three
A reporter for the Shanghai Star
minutes,
before
quietly leaving.
perceived that "Cohn seems to cherish
For
most,
it
was
their initial intro-
a special feeling for the Jews." Indeed,
TOM TUGEND
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
is
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