TO LIFE

Dir. Uwe Janson (86min, Germany, 2014)
German with English Subtitles
Narrative

Adapted from the original story “If Stones Could Cry” by Stephen Glantz. Jonas, a young man on the run, arrives in Berlin just in time to save Ruth’s life.

Evicted from her apartment, the sarcastic but warm-hearted Ruth, an aging Jewish cabaret singer, saw no other way out than suicide. Jonas, meanwhile, is driven by a secret, and is fleeing from his love and his future. As Ruth recovers, she and Jonas begin to form a deep bond. Age-old Jewish culture and music are brought into the light of day as she tells him the story of her own impossible, tragic love for a non-Jewish man in post-WWII Germany, a love burdened by the legacy of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany.

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