The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be Lore, screening at 1 pm on September 28 in the Holocaust Museum’s theatre in Jewish Federation Kopolow Building at 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Abandoned by their Nazi parents, five German siblings, led by 14-year-old Lore, embark on a harrowing journey across their country, after the war’s end. This lyrical coming-of-age tale provides an unforgettable look at the human legacy of the Holocaust. Produced in 2012, Lore will screenin German with English subtitles, with a running time of 108 minutes.
Introductory remarks and a post screening discussion will be facilitated by Jennifer Kapzynski, associate professor of German at Washington University, focusing on 20th century literature and film. In 2008, Dr. Kapzynski published The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture and was co-editor of A New History of German Cinema, 2012. Films in this Sunday series are free and open to the public. For further information, call 314-442-3714 or email DReich@JFedSTL.org.