Against the law – twenty-four times a second. But Jewish cinema nevertheless

A series entitled: ‘The Aura of the Divine’, in which a ‘Jewish’ film also occupies a place. It is Jewish inasmuch as the Jews in the film lend it ‘divine’ cinematic expression. It caused the law to be broken a sheer twenty-four times a second. In spite of this, the programme also contains the film "Der Tango der Rashevskis" – one of the few comedies of the last few years that succeeded in presenting Jewish experience in an intelligent and humorous manner on the screen. The films "Alles auf Zucker!" by Dani Levy and "Seres Queridos – Alles was ich an euch liebe" by Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri also come up for discussion here.

7 p.m.

Talk:Ronny Loewy, project leader of the ‘Cinematography of the Holocaust’, works at the Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF, Frankfurt am Main

Film

Der Tango der Rashevskis

D: Sam Garbarski,France/Belgium 2003, 100 min., German subtitles