Czech Republic: 2 film(s)
Forgotten Transports: To Poland / Zapomenute Trasnporty: Do Polsko
Protector / Protektor
Forgotten Transports: To Poland / Zapomenute Trasnporty: Do Polsko
Lukás Pribyl, Czech Republic, 2009, 90m
New York PremiereLukás Pribyl (Forgotten Transports: To Estonia, NYJFF 2009) returns with a moving documentary on Czech Jews deported by the Nazis to camps and ghettos in Eastern Poland’s Lublin region. Using meticulous research methods and declassified archival footage and photographs, Pribyl delves into the psyche of individuals on the run. Of the nearly 13,000 Czech and Moravian Jews deported to Poland, only 50 survived; several provide testimony for the first time.
Lukas Pribyl, Director, will be in attendance.
Sun Jan 17: 9:00pm
Mon Jan 18: 3:30pm
Tue Jan 19: 3:30pm
Protector / Protektor
Marek Najbrt, Czech Republic, 2009, 98m
New York PremiereSet in Nazi-occupied Prague in the late 1930s, Protector is a stylish drama focusing on the marriage of radio journalist Emil (Marek Daniel) and his Jewish wife Hana (Jana Plodková), a famous film star. Emil seizes a chance at career advancement, becoming the official mouthpiece of the Reich, in order to offer a measure of protection to Hana. Their fraying relationship reaches a crisis point after the assassination of SS Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers. Protector is the Czech Republic’s submission for the 2010 Foreign Language Oscar.
Marek Najbrt, Director, Benjamin Tucek, Co-Writer, and Milan Kuchynka, Producer, will be in attendance.
preceded by
With A Little Patience
Laszlo Nemes, Hungary, 2008, 14m
New York PremiereIn one wordless take, this finely crafted short shows an enigmatic woman at work while a man waits for her.
Sun Jan 17: 9:00pm
Mon Jan 18: 3:30pm
Tue Jan 19: 3:30pm
This year's New York Jewish Film Festival was selected by Rachel Chanoff, Independent Curator; Andrew Ingall, Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum; Richard Peña, Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Aviva Weintraub, Associate Curator and Director of the NYJFF, The Jewish Museum.
