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Every
year at the festival we show a couple of classic films. This
year we will show two important, classic films not just because
they have Jewish themes but because they were ground-breaking
in their time as well.
Did
you know that filmmaker's screening fees for this year's festival
will be over HK$75,000? That's 25 percent of the whole festival's
budget. If you believe in the festival, please support this
great event.
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Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, also known as Janusz
Korczak, is a man of high principles. He shouts at
Nazi officers and frequently has to be persuaded to
save his own life. His orphanage, set up in a
cramped school in the Warsaw ghetto, provides
shelter to 200 homeless Jewish children. Putting his
experimental educational methods into practice, he
installs a kind of children's self-government, whose
justice is in big contrast to what is happening
outside the orphanage's doors. There, dozens of
children are dying or are being killed everyday and
their naked bodies lie on the street unattended.
While the ghetto's mayor assures him that the
orphanage will be saved, Korczak raises food and
money from the Jews who are still relatively
well-off. In the final roundup in the ghetto,
Korczak refuses to accept a Swiss passport and
boards the deportation train to Treblinka with his
orphans.
This film will be presented in Polish with
English subtitles.
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The
7th Annual Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival - November
11 - 19. Tickets go on sale soon.
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Gentleman's Agreement |
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A well-known writer at a progressive New York
magazine decides to tackle anti-Semitism in a unique
way as his first assignment. Phillip Green (Gregory
Peck) pretends to be Jewish in order to write about
the effects of bigotry. From being refused a job and
access to public accommodations, to his son being
verbally attacked and his fiancée expressing concern
over his assumed identity, Green soon learns what it
means to be the object of sectarian prejudice. The
best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism.
* Winner of 3 Oscars© including Best Picture and Best
Director, 1948
* Winner of 4 Golden Globe© awards, 1947
* Best Director, National Board of Review, 1947
* Best Director and Best Film, New York Film Critics
Circle Awards, 1947
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