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We Want the Light (2004)
5h 30min
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Synopsis:
This is a re-release on our own label for the first time of our prize-winning video, 'We Want the Light'. The title is taken from a poem by a 12-year-old girl, Eva Pickova, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Her words provide both the title and the climax in a setting for two choruses and orchestra by the American composer Franz Waxman, in his touching work The Song of Terezin. It is a film is about many things.
It is about freedom and captivity, about emancipation, acculturation and assimilation; it is about the roles played by Moses and Felix Mendelssohn in the dream of fruitful, unproblematic integration of the Jews into German society after their liberation from the ghettos; it is about Richard Wagner, his ferociously anti- Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (The Jews in Music) and his influence on the thinking of the Third Reich but, most of all, it is a film about how much music can mean to people, even in the direst of circumstances, or particularly in the direst circumstances.
Actors:
Alice Sommer Herz, , , ,
Directors:
Studio:
Christopher Nupen Films
Genres:
Performing Arts
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Release Date:
Not available for rental
Run Time:
330 minutes
Colour:
Colour
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