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DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Neeme jiirvi. .11u,ic Director

Special Event

THE KLEZMATICS

Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 8:30 pm
at Orchestra Hall

Anna Siskova
as Marie Cizek
and Csoger
Kassai as
David Wiener
in "Divided
We Fall,"
a comedic
exploration
of wartime
paranoia.

The Klezmatics are known

throughout the U.S. for

their sold-out houses and

appearances on A Prairie Home

Companion. They'll provide

an unforgettable evening

of jo:Jous, sentimental,

soul-stirring Klezmer music

nuance. Generally pensive, morose and
consistently resolute Marie, all the
complacent, Josef's loyalty is put to the
characters are conflicted.
test when — fulfilling a promise to his
Divided We Fall reminds us that doing
Jewish friend David Wiener — he
the right thing is not necessarily a matter
sneaks into the Wieners' lavish estate
of making a grand, momentous choice.
to retrieve a secret stash of jewels.
Rather, morally correct decisions are
There he encounters David, who has
often made up of many smaller ones
recently escaped from a concentration
— whether mundane or remarkable,
camp. The Cizeks take David into
rational or instinctive, tentative or
their home, where their quiet world is
sudden. 0
frequently interrupted by unan-
— Tbm Tugend contributed to this article.
nounced visits from former-colleague-
turned-Nazi-collaborator Horst
Prohazka.
Divided We Fall screens at the
The knuckle-cracking, obsequious
Detroit Film Theatre at the
Horst — played brilliantly by Jaroslav
Detroit Institute of Arts 7 and
Dusek — has taken a fancy to Marie,
9:30 p.m. Friday; 4, 7 and 9:30
and he continually attempts to ingrati-
p.m. Saturday; and 1, 4 and 7
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David's presence tests the true met-
tle of the rescuer, which lies not so
much in the initial
decision to hide a Jew,
but in the constant fear
of detection by snoopy
neighbors, Gestapo
agents, unexpected
guests and even stray
dogs.
Horst's interruptions
become threateningly
inopportune. The
major plot development
occurs when Marie —
fighting off Horst's per-
sistent advances —
insists that she is preg-
Heinz Dormer (born 1912) spent nearly two decades
nant. She and Josef
in German prisons and concentration camps for
end up dangerously
violations of Paragraph 175, Germany's anti-sodomy
cornered by that lie,
law. Heinz, who now lives in Berlin, is featured
until Josef hits upon a
in "Paragraph 175," a documentary by Jewish
provocative solution.
filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who
Hrebejk and
explored gays in the movies in the Emmy-winning
Jarchovsky are master-
"The Celluloid Closet." This spring's Lenore Marwil
fully attuned to the
Jewish Film Festival debuted Paragraph 175 to
ironies of their tale.
Detroit audiences. It will be shown 7:30p.m.
They want us to think
Monday, Sept. 17, at the Detroit Film Theatre.
carefully about the con-
It was slotted before schedulers realized the screening
cept of heroism. With
conflicts with the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
the exception of the

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