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Wolf (2013)
Directed by Claudio Giovannesi
Documentary
Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989) was head of the Jewish Council of the artificial ghetto of Terezín (Theresienstadt in German). The Nazis made him representative of the community destined for extermination. Victim of a tragic contradiction, after the Liberation he was tried and absolved from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis; he moved to Rome, where he was ostracized by the Jewish community until he died. His son Wolf devoted his life to redeem his image, trying to paint a more complex picture of the role his father played in Terezín. The film reconstructs through the conversation between Wolf and the psychoanalyst David Meghnagi a son's relationship with the memory of his father, between the acceptance, the denial, and the thematization of a common and familiar tragedy.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Claudio Giovannesi
- Writer
- Claudio Giovannesi, David Meghnagi
- Editor
- Giuseppe Trepiccione
Details
- Release date
- 2013-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- IT
- Countries
- Italy, Czech Republic