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CONEY ISLAND
Justman's documentary about 14
Czechoslovakian Communists, 11 of whom
were Jewish, who were falsely tried on charges
of high treason and espionage in 1952; The
Snail Position, Canadian director Michka
Saal's drama about a young Sephardic woman
who makes a new life for herself in Montreal;
and French director Sabine Franel's First of the
Name (1999), a film that follows two geneal-
ogy experts on a quest to assemble as many
descendants of an 18th-century peddler as
possible for a family reunion.
Other film festival highlights include
Obsessed with the Jews (Jeff Krulik, USA,
1998), a documentary about -Neil Keller,
who collects memorabilia of every possible
notable Jew throughout history — from
politicians to bullfighters to entertainers;
The Maelstrom — A Family Chronicle (Peter
Forgacs, The Netherlands, 1997), in which
the filmmaker integrates found footage of the
home movies of an Auschwitz-bound Dutch
family and those of the German wartime
governor of occupied Holland; Scottsboro: An
American Tragedy (Daniel Anker, Barak
Goodman, USA, 2000), a documentary that
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records on film for the first time the story of
nine black teenagers (accused of raping two
white women) who are defended by Jewish
defense lawyer Samuel Leibowitz in 1930s
Alabama; Hanele (Karel Kachyna, Czech
Republic, 1999), a film set in the 1930s in
which a woman leaves her small enclave of
observant Jews in sub-Carpathian Ukraine
for the big city, where she falls for a free-
thinking man and faces ostracism; Disparus:
(a.k.a. Love Troika) (Gilles Bourdos, France,
1998; English subtitles) about the life and
disappearance of Alfred Katz (Gregoire
Colin), a Trotskyite poet and lover of Mila,
photographer Man Ray's favorite model;
Summer in Ivye (Tamar Rogoff, Daisy
Wright, USA, 2000, video), featuring music
by Frank London, in which an American
choreographer stagess -a theater production
after discovering the fate of her family who
once lived in the vibrant Jewish town of Ivye
in Belarus; and The Jazzman from the Gulag
(Pierre-Henry Salfati, France, 1999), a biog-
raphy of so-called "degenerate" trumpeter
Eddie Rosner, nicknamed the "White
Armstrong" by Louis himself El
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Baskin's current undertaking underscores
the topsy-turvy nature of history and heritag,e.
Here is an erstwhile Soviet Jew who applied
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though he asked for permission to immigrate
to Israel, "my mind was set to go to the
United States") now essaying the role of one
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