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Screening Information
Film Details
| Country | Poland | |
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| Year | 1949 | |
| Running Time | 70 MIN | |
| Language | Yiddish | |
| Directors | Shimon Dzigan,Shaul Goskind,Natan Gross | |
| Cast | Szymon Dzigan,Israel Shumacher | |
| Theme | Yiddishkeit |
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Description
"Our Children is not only among the first films about the Holocaust, it is also the first to critique its representation.” (J. Hoberman, Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds). This landmark semi-documentary film features comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Schumacher in a virtuoso turn as all the characters in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke is Burning. The audience consists of children from the Helenowek Colony, an orphanage and school for Holocaust survivors near Lodz. When audience and performers exchange roles, the kids demonstrate the healing power of music, dance, and storytelling. Produced in 1948, Our Children is the last Yiddish feature made in Poland.
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The film is being screened with permission from the rightsholder, the National Center for Jewish Film.
Part of the Tribute to Dzigan and Schumacher
Presentation Details
| Guest | Dr. Diego Rotman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Toronto), author of The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Satirical Theater. |
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| Photo Credit | National Center for Jewish Film |
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