Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,3 (1999) 180-195
Keywords:
Gorovets, Leonid.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Motion pictures
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Jews in motion pictures
Abstract:
Relates the plot of the Russian film "Damskii portnoi" ("Ladies' Tailor", 1990), directed by Leonid Gorovets. It shows one day in a Jewish home in Kiev, the day before the massacre at Babii Yar. The film places equal blame for the horrors of this century on Stalin as on Hitler, and is as much on the fate of the Jews in the 20th century as on the fate of Soviet society. The Jews are presented as a humanizing factor, "a light unto the nations", vital for the moral resurrection of Soviet society which was deformed and dehumanized by Stalinism. With the end of Soviet Jewry, whether at Babii Yar or through assimilation or emigration, nobody would be left who, like the protagonist of the film, could repair the torn fabric of Soviet society.
Note:
On the Russian film made in 1990, by Leonid Gorovets, on the Jews in Kiev on the day before the massacre at Babi Yar.
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