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had come from Rwanda, Armenia,
Bosnia or Darfur, would we be
watching films about genocides in
their countries?
Sharon Rivo, executive director of
the National Center for Jewish Film
at Brandeis University, is convinced
that personal ties and far* experi-
ences strongly influence laer pro-
fessional decisions.
"At least once a week I get a pitch
by someone who feels that he or
she must make a film about parents
or grandparents who survived the
Holocaust:' Rivo said.
Even as consummate a profession-
al as Steven Spielberg believes that
personal background counts. Well
before the release of Schindler's List,
he told JTA that he learned to count
numbers by tracing the scratches on
the forearm of a survivor befriended
by his parents.
Suber holds a strongly divergent
view, asserting that ethnic or other
kinds of sentiments play no role
in the tough, bottom line-obsessed
entertainment business. Forty years
ago, tackling the subject in a study
on the interaction between Jewish
culture and film culture, he con-
cluded there was none.
The Eastern European immigrants
who founded the film industry went
out of their way to downplay their
Jewishness, he recalled. Even today,
Suber maintained, "Hollywood Jews
are secular Jews; they are American
businessmen who don't put their
race or religion first."
Whatever the reason, a new wave
of Holocaust films can and will soon
be found in a theater near you.
• In theaters now is Inglourious
Basterds. Pitt is the leader of the
ferocious band of American Jewish
GIs, and writer-director Tarantino
infuses the film with his stylized
camera work and violence — his
GIs don't take prisoners but slowly
scalp the German soldiers or crack
their skulls with baseball bats.
• A slyer and less bloody satiri-
cal fantasy about turning the tables
comes from Germany in Dani Levy's
My Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth
About Adolf Hitler. With the Third
Reich crumbling, Hitler's henchmen
figure that only a fiery speech by
the Fuhrer on New Year's Day 1945
can rouse the German masses and
turn the tide. But Hitler is in a funk,
locked in his room, and only the
great acting coach Adolf Grunbaum,
currently in a concentration camp,
can restore the dictator to his old
form — and in the process extract
his own form of revenge. The
German import, previously seen in
this country at a number of Jewish
film festivals, is in the midst of
opening its first American theatrical
run in various cities.
• Due in the fall is Four Seasons
Lodge, a feature documentary about
a community of Holocaust survivors
who come together in New York's
Catskill Mountains every summer to
celebrate their lives.
• In Tickling Leo, three genera-
tions of a Jewish family, with roots
in Hungary and branches in New
York and Israel, try to connect its
members to one another. The key
to their reconciliation involves the
still controversial World War II
Rudolph Kastner Affair, in which a
Jewish leader bargained with Adolf
Eichmann, the "architect of the
Holocaust:' for the lives of 1,000
community leaders in return for
money and supplies for the Nazi war
machine.
• Being Jewish in France details
the love-hate relationship between
the French and their Jewish compa-
triots from the anti-Semitic Dreyfus
Affair of the 1890s to the present.
Excellent archival footage strength-
ens the focus on the World War II
era, when the Vichy government and
the French police did much of the
dirty work for the German occupi-
ers. The three-hour documentary is
now on the film festival circuit but
is worthy of wider theatrical distri-
bution.
• Denmark, which saved nearly all
of its 7,500 Jews, contributes Flame
& Citron, based on the true story
of two legendary Danish resistance
fighters who sabotaged the Nazi
occupiers and assassinated their
local collaborators.
Waiting in the wings are two com-
pleted independent films on little-
known aspects of the war.
• Karin Albou's Wedding Song
follows the story of two 16-year-old
Tunisian girls, one Muslim and the
other Jewish, whose lifelong friend-
ship is tested by the six-month Nazi
occupation of their country.
• About Face is a well-researched
documentary by Steve Karras
about young Jewish refugees from
Germany and Austria who fought
their one-time tormentors by join-
ing the U.S. Army and an elite
British commando unit. Pi
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