November 30 - December
10, 2000
An Exhibition of International
Cinema
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Jazzman
From the Gulag
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Festival
Schedule
Film
Index by Title
Film
Index by Director
Print
Sources
France/Netherlands, 1999, Video,
58 minutes
English and Russian with English subtitles
Director: Pierre-Henry
Salfati
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Sunday, December
3
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5:00 pm
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FREE
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screens
with Weintraubs Syncopators
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Jazzman From the Gulag retraces the life of legendary jazz musician Eddie Rosner; a man nicknamed "White Louis Armstrong" by Mr. Armstrong himself. Of Polish-Jewish decent, Rosner was a child prodigy as a classical violinist, and later went on to study to be a conductor at Berlin's Music Academy. When the Nazis took power in Germany, Rosner fled eastward to the Soviet Union, where Stalin declared him a State musician. However, following the war, Stalin changed his thinking and sent Rosner to Siberia. There he again sought a group of musicians that would help him through these grueling times. French director Pierre-Henry Salfati and Russian writer Natalya Sazonova chronicle Rosner's adventures through music and love affairs, with the help of astonishing archival footage, including some of Rosner's greatest contemporaries.
Winner, Certificate
of Merit 2000, San Francisco International
Film Festival
(Biography
Category, Director, Pierre-Henry Salfati)
Welcoming Remarks
Sylvia Blume, Program Coordinator, Goethe-Institut
Washington
Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Washington
In cooperation with the Embassy of France and the Alliance Française de Washington DC
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| Related Web Links |
| Film Information from Amazon.com's Internet Movie Database |
| Director Pierre-Henry Salfati's Filmography (from IMDB) |
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Director Pierre-Henry Salfati and Writer Natalya Sazonova (photographs and streaming Windows Media video interview from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) |
| Jazz in Russia Web Site (in Russian) |
| Film Programs at the Goethe-Institut Washington |
| Centre National de la Cinématographie, République Française |
| Netherlands Film Museum and Archives |
| Alliance Française de Washington DC |
| Film Programs and Cultural Services of the Embassy of France |
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