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9/14
2001
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The Tedium Of Terror
More than a war or Holocaust film,
"Divided We Fall" is a masterful study of the
complexity of the human mind and spirit.
Hrebejk has taken the screenplay —
based on a novel written by Petr
Jarchovsky — and turned it into an
idiosyncratic depiction of human
illions of civilians faced
courage and frailty in the face of
the ultimate test of
extraordinary events.
character when Nazi
Because of its sense of humor, the
armies occupied their
film has been compared to Lift is
countries and started deporting their
Beautiful. It's a somewhat superficial
Jewish neighbors.
comparison.
Most looked the other way, when
The comic moments in Roberto
they did not actively collaborate with
Benigni's
film are painted in broad
their conquerors. A few risked their
strokes with bold colors; Divided We
own lives and those of their families
Fall is more like a
by sheltering Jews.
watercolor, with subtle
Below:
And some gave in to terri-
shading and a gentler
Boleslav Polivka
ble fears and pressures at one
edge
as Josef Cizek in
point, but acted with
In the film, Josef
"Divide d We Fall."
supreme moral courage at
(Boleslav
Polivka) and
"A perso n who is faced
other times.
Marie
Cizek
(Anna
r
sometimes
with fea
It is the third group that
Siskova) are a childless
filmmaker Jan Hrebejk exam- does inte resting things.
couple who witness the
Decent p eople can lose
ines with perception and
their qu alities, and, at deportation of their
sympathy in the Czech film
Jewish friends and busi-
Divided We Fall, an Academy the same time, people
ness acquaintances dur-
Award nominee last year for
who wer e considered
ing the Nazi occupa-
weakling us can act like
Best Foreign Language Film.
heroes," says filmmaker tion.
Based on a true story, the
Timid Marie —
Jan Hre bejk.
film takes place in a small
played delicately by
Czech town during the war
Siskova who, with
years of 1943-45. It tells the
appealing Mia Farrow looks and
story of a couple who hide a Jewish
demeanor, radiates on screen — wist-
friend in their tiny pantry for two years.
fully dusts the Madonna painting in
Sound familiar? Synopses of the film
their cramped apartment as her bar-
may make it seem like a "genre" pic-
renness reflects the desolation brought
ture with a predictable Holocaust plot.
by
the war.
But viewers will be pleasantly sur-
Polivka's Josef is an exquisite study in
prised.
AUDREY BECKER
Special to the Jewish News
NI
.