• Title:
• Charging the Rhino

• Director:
• Simcha Jacobivici and Bruce Thorson

• English

• Canada, 53 minutes

• Venue:
• Goethe-Institut Washington

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A father who survived a near-fatal shot to the heart behind a Romanian police station, and a cousin who was forced to appear in a 1960 heist film produced by the communist regime that then executed him behind a Bucharest prison, are the ghosts that haunt and propel award-winning Filmmaker Simcha  Jacobivici. This deeply personal film, sprinkled with stylistically innovative effects, brings the history of Iasi, Romania to a psychological trial. Over the past sixty years, the Jewish population of Romania has drastically diminished from more than 700,000 to less than 10,000. Simcha returns to Romania with his sister Sara to document their family history. There they encounter the infamous police station, a modern Romanian fascist, and a few aged survivors of the rural town where many of Romania’s Jews were carted on trains and left to die. More than a heartbreaking family history, Charging the Rhino explores the devastating history of fascism and communism in Romania and the life-altering affect it had on the psyche of those who endured Romania’s unimaginable.

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