• Title:
• I Only Wanted to Live

• Director:
• Mimmo Calopresti

• Italian with English subtitles

• Italy/USA, 82 minutes

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, this masterfully crafted documentary shares the moving personal stories of eight Italian survivors of Auschwitz with astounding detail. Director Mimmo Calopresti went through more than 400 testimonies of Italian survivors collected by Steve n Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation, and the result is a film replete with recollections that are strikingly intimate: the way a father’s wrists looked “delicate” in handcuffs; a can of sardines creating an unlikely moment of grace; a mother who cried so much at the parting with her child that his face slipped from hers when they kissed. Destined to be a classic document of survivor testimony and a work of skillful editing, I Only Wanted To Live guards against the banality of evil with the vividness of rich humanity.

CO-SPONSORED BY the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Generation After

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