SHTTL
Thu, Mar 02
|Century 16 Theaters 1, 4 & 3
Virtual Guest Speaker: Jake Marmer on Ukraine: Literature and Life Beyond the Headlines. Co-sponsor: Alliance Française de San Francisco.
Time & Location
Mar 02, 2023, 12:15 PM – 2:09 PM PST
Century 16 Theaters 1, 4 & 3, 125 Crescent Dr, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, USA
About the Event
Drama / Ukraine, France / Yiddish with English subtitles / 2022 / 114 minutes - Watch trailer here
Director Ady Walter’s extraordinary and beautiful film is not about the disasters overwhelming Soviet Ukraine during WWII, but rather something completely different. It is a celebration of the dynamic nature of Jewish life in a fictional village on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Called “a masterpiece” by many critics, it immerses you into the characters’ lives and loves, as if you are interacting with real-life people. Like filmmaker Mendele who returns to his hometown from cosmopolitan Kyiv, his neighbors are full of dreams, hopes and passionately voiced opinions. SHTTL is “not only as an absolutely essential Jewish film but as an exquisite testament to those beautiful lives that never came to be.”
Virtual Guest Speaker: Jake Marmer on Ukraine: Literature and Life Beyond the Headlines.
Co-sponsor: Alliance Française de San Francisco.