As a non-Jew, that was my introduction to the Holocaust. I remember the disconcerting feeling of going from a regular day with colors and sunshine inside a dark theater to see a black-and-white film about the horrors of the concentration camps. He said, “You girls have to know what happened.” It was by the famous French film director Alain Resnais in collaboration with screenwriter Jean Cayrol, who was a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. My father took me and a friend to see it.
It’s a scene from Night and Fog, the French documentary film about Auschwitz and Majdanek. Her most recent movie is the documentary A Classy Broad about Marcia Nasatir. That’s the miracle of Hollywood.Īnne Goursaud Anne Goursaud is a French-born American filmmaker who has frequently collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson. He sings “Kol Nidre.” The Warner brothers, all Jews, had the courage to make this movie and to pick their biggest star, Al Jolson, to play the lead. But in the end, he returns to the Jewish religion. It’s about Jewish people, religious immigrants who don’t speak English, their son who sings American jazz in blackface and probably marries a shiksa. Jews who wanted to be seen as Americans made this movie in the 1920s. In the pivotal scene, he has to choose between fulfilling his dream by going to opening night for his new show or attending shul to sing “Kol Nidre” in his ailing father’s place.
Jakie Rabinowitz’s father, a Jewish cantor, is dying Rabinowitz, played by Al Jolson, has long been estranged from his family because he wants to be a showbiz singer. She helped develop and produce films such as Rocky, The Big Chill, Carrie and Coming Home. Marcia Nasatir Marcia Nasatir was the first female vice president of a major Hollywood film studio (United Artists).
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