JFF- Death and the Maiden / Dancing Before the Enemy

Dancing Before the Enemy: How a Teenage Boy Fooled the Nazis and Lived
Documentary/USA/2014/63 minutes

Film producer Gene Gutowski (Repulsion, The Pianist) was fourteen when the Nazis in- vaded his hometown of Lwow, Poland. With a combination of chutzpah, street smarts and an unflinching will to live, he spent the war flirting with danger as a teenage Jew hiding in plain site. As recounted with humor and pathos to his son, filmmaker Bardach, his remarkable survival tale represents a thumb of the nose at darkness and totalitarianism.

Q&A with filmmaker, Adam Bardach

Preceded by:
Death and the Maiden
Short/Israel/Germany/2014/29 minutes

Shortly after World War II, over 1,000 paintings were discovered in a cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a young Jewish woman named Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life ina unique creation called: ‘Life? Or Theater? This film unravels her extraordinary and tragic story.

• Monday, May 4, 7:30 pm at the Temple Emmanuel Beverly Hills