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Jew Boy Levi
| Germany,
1998, 35mm, 97 minutes German with English subtitles Director: Didi Danquart DC Premiere Wednesday, December 8, 8:45 pm Thursday, December 9, 6:15 pm |
| In a small town in Germany’s Black Forest, little has changed for centuries. Levi, a tradesman and cattle dealer, has been coming to the town for years to buy and sell with the local farmers, just as his father and grandfather before him. Levi feels such a part of the town that he plans to propose to Lisbeth Horger, the Catholic daughter of one of his clients. But in 1935 disturbing changes begin to take place with the arrival in town of a Nazi bureaucrat Fabian Kohler (Ulrich Noethen, The Harmonists). Slowly, the townspeople begin to change their attitudes toward Levi. Director Didi Danquart has constructed a film with a complicated moral terrain set against the pristine Black Forest, where an ominous and seemingly unstoppable railroad is being constructed. |
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Distributed by Zero Film,
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http://www.zerofilm.de/
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Vilna
| USA,
1998, video, 4 minutes Director: Harvey Wang DC Premiere Wednesday, December 8, 8:45 pm Thursday, December 9, 6:15 pm |
| An experimental montage of images shot on location in Vilna, Riga and Kovno that centers on a woman walking a chilly, dark landscape searching for memories that have been lost. |
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| Chanukah Candlelighting will take place at 5:45 pm every night in the Q Street Lobby of the DCJCC (December 4 through 10) |
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Welcoming Remarks:
Werner Ott, Director,
Goethe-Institut Washington (December 8)Irmgard Maria Fellner, Special Events Officer,
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany (December 9)
Special Guest:
Didi Danquart, Director
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