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| Hephzibah |
| Australia, 1998,
Video, 75 minutes English Director: Curtis Levy Friday, December 10, 1:00 pm |
| Hephzibah was a music prodigy like her brother Yehudi Menuhin and toured the world giving piano concerts. At a London concert in 1938 she and her brother met Lindsay and Nola Nichols from Australia and something remarkable happened. Yehudi married Nola and Hephzibah married Lindsay and abandoned her concert career to live with him on his sheep ranch in the Australian countryside. After World War II she toured Europe again with her brother and was shattered by what she saw, specifically in Theresienstadt and more generally, in the chaos and poverty of post-war Europe. An affair with a Viennese sociologist scandalized Australia and she moved in with him to work with the poor in London. This documentary brings us her extraordinary life through rare home movies and interviews with her friends, siblings and children. Winner of the Silver Bear Award for Best Documentary Film, at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam; Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Australian Documentary Film; voted Most Popular Australian Documentary at the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals. |
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Co-Sponsored by the Embassy of Australia |
Introduction:
Jill Indyk, Director of Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Australia
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