The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be In Darkness, screening at 1:00 pm on November 30, 2014. The screening will take place at the Holocaust Museum’s theatre at Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Based on a true story, this film, directed by Agniezka Holland, recounts how a sewer worker and petty thief hides a group of Jews in the sewer system below the city of Lvov. This 2012 film has a running time of 144 minutes; in Polish with English subtitles, this film is rated R for violence and some nudity.
Introductory remarks and a post screening discussion will be facilitated by Warren Rosenblum, Associate Professor in the Department of History, Politics and International Relations, Webster University. His most recent publication is Jews, Justice and the Power of ‘Sensation’ in the Weimar Republic, in the 2013 Year Book of the Leo Baeck Institute. Films in this Sunday series are free and open to the public. For further information, call 314-442-3714 or email DReich@JFedSTL.org.