Norway, 2003, 59 min., video, Norwegian with English subtitles.This is the New York Premiere. Topping the Nazi’s most wanted list in April 1940, as Germany invaded Norway, was Moritz Rabinowitz, a Polish clothier in the small Norwegian town of Haugesund. Against all odds, he built several hugely successful clothing stores that became the bedrock of Haugesund’s business community. He also became an admirably outspoken critic of Hitler’s regime. The story of his own town’s complicity in his tragic fate offers a deeply unsettling portrait of entrenched anti-Semitism. Directors: Jon Haukeland and Tore Vollan.
The New York Jewish Film Festival is presented by The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
When: Wednesday January 12 at 1 pm, Thursday January 13 at 1 pm, and Monday January 17 at 12:30 pm
Where: The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, plaza level.
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