Making Light in Terezin. A Documentary on Art vs. Death
Description
This film follows a modern day Minnesota theater group as they travel to Terezin to perform a cabaret piece originally created and enacted there during WWII. Weaving together interviews with performers, Holocaust survivors and scholars discussing Jewish humor, Jewish history and more, it tells a story not only of survival but also the triumph of a culture, artistic expression, and the human spirit.
Runtime
1 hr 28 min 4 sec
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates as musicians (1)
- World War, 1939-1945 (1652)
- Holocaust survivors (33)
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (4)
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