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| Documentary Film Trailer - "More Precious Than Pearls: One Man's Faith After the Holocaust" |
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A Film by Naftali Robert Friedman
Faith after the Holocaust is a theme that is
rarely touched upon in Holocaust-related
documentaries, let alone examined deeply.
This documentary film attempts to explore, in
an engaging and compelling manner the complex
emotional, intellectual and spiritual
struggles faced by a survivor of Nazi
concentration camps who immigrated to America
after the war (via Northern Ireland and
London).
The film examines how he succeeded in
achieving self-renewal as a human being and
as a committed Jew, without forgetting the
vivid, yet incomprehensibly painful memories
of the past, obscuring them from those around
him or suffering from paralyzing depression
or anxiety. The film centers on the
filmmaker's father, Alex Friedman, a
Slovakian Jew and a scion of a rabbinical
family who is an importer of cultured pearls
from the Far East based in New York's 47th
Street jewelry district. He is known, by his
family, business colleagues and his
community, for his warmth and friendly
disposition as well as his myriad volunteer
activities.
We join Mr. Friedman as he returns to Central
and Eastern Europe (with his wife, three of
his four children and his 12 year-old
grandson, Ami) to reclaim the past by
visiting the personal landmarks of his
childhood and the concentration camps he was
interned at during the war.
The film describes Mr. Friedman's ancestors
and the heritage that that they passed down
to him. On location in Svalyava (Ukraine),
Kosice (Slovakia) and in various villages in
the surrounding area, Mr. Friedman shares how
the Nazis destroyed his entire family, his
community in and its way of life. He recalls
family and communal experiences growing up
that will convey to the viewer a personal
sense of what was lost in the war to one man,
to the Jewish people and to the entire family
of mankind. Again on location, Mr. Friedman
describes in a poignant, but unsentimental,
way his arrival at Auschwitz with his father
and brother and his internment at Ebensee, a
subcamp of Mathausen nestled in the scenic
Austrian Alps near Salzburg.
He managed to physically and spiritually
survive the death camps and his faith in God
and in humanity was restored an ocean away
from the chaos at a Jewish Agency sponsored
kibbutz-like "hachshara" farm for child
refugees in Mislille, a quiet, peaceful town
on the coast of Northern Ireland. After
several months in Northern Ireland, Mr.
Friedman accepted the offer of some of the
madrichim (counselors) from the religious
Zionist movement and joined them as they
returned to their families in London. They
helped him settle in London where he was
taken in by a family as a boarder and where
he found work in Hatton Gardens as an
apprentice diamond cutter. It was there he
first heard of the declaration of the newly
established State of Israel and made his
first donation to the newborn country from
one of his first paychecks.
After several years in London, Mr. Friedman
eventually immigrated to the United States
and moved to New York where he resides with
his wife.
More Precious Than Pearls can be purchased by
visiting the film website at
www.geocities.com/moreprecious2004
TITLE: More Precious than Pearls
DIRECTOR /PRODUCER: Naftali Robert Friedman
COUNTRY: USA, 2004
LANGUAGE: English
TIME: 50 minutes
AWARDS: Winner -The International Jewish Film
& Video Competition SCREENINGS: Film
festivals & venues from California to Hong
Kong.
SELECTED: The Jerusalem Film Center's and
Memory and History series at the Jerusalem
Cinematheque. The Judah Magnes Museum,
Installation (Berkeley, CA)
Essay about Faith after the Holocaust
http://www.geocities.com/moreprecious2004/Ess
ayFromTheForward.html
Article about Alex & Northern Ireland by the
late Member of Parliament, Harold McCusker
http://www.geocities.com/moreprecious2004/Iri
sh-MP-Article-Belfast-Telegraph-1982.html
For More Information, Bookings, and
Screenings of "More Precious than Pearls" -
please contact us at this email address:
morepearl @ yahoo.com
To buy VHS or DVD of More Precious than
Pearls www.geocities.com/moreprecious2004
Tags : Holocaust Nazi survivor concentration camps pearls faith Jew Jewish religious Zionist Israel documentary trailer |
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Affichage : 96
Durée : 309 s |
| 1982 - Tron - Trailer |
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Kevin Flynn is a former employee of the
software corporation ENCOM, now running a
arcade. Flynn has been trying to hack into
ENCOM's mainframe computer to find evidence
that ENCOM's senior executive Ed Dillinger
stole four video games he created. But
Dillinger's supercomputer "Master Control
Program" foils Flynn's efforts and dictates
and controls most of the computer systems.
One night, Flynn's former girlfriend Lora and
her boyfriend, ace computer programmer Alan
Bradley helps Flynn break into ENCOM to shut
down the MCP with Alan's security program
"TRON". But MCP uses Lora's matter
transmission program and converts Flynn into
data and sends him into the computer. Flynn
finds himself in a electronic world ruled by
the MCP and his evil chief henchman Sark,
where computer programs are the alter-egos of
their creators and are forced to compete in
gladiatorial games. With help from Tron, a
heroic and fearless security program and his
lover, Yori, Flynn sets out destroy the MCP
and help Tron liberate the system from the
MCP's control, by destroying the MCP is
Flynn's only way of returning to the real
world.
Tags : Frank Schenk Favoriete Film Tron Video Classic Must See Computers Internet Software Hackers Etische Discussie |
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Affichage : 70626
Durée : 153 s |
| Julie Moss competing in the 1982 Hawaii Ironman Triathlon |
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In 1982, Julie Moss became worldwide famous
during the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, in which
she competed as part of her research for her
exercise physiology thesis. At approximately
two miles before the finish line, she came
severely dehydrated. She staggered and
crawled towards the end of the course, only
to be passed moments before the finish line
by Kathleen McCartney. Her struggle to finish
the Ironman was broadcasted live around the
world by ABC Sports, and provided inspiration
to many.
Tags : Julie Moss triathlon Ironman 1982 Hawaii triathlete dehydration falling race |
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Affichage : 223820
Durée : 174 s |
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