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A radically Yiddish Film: Boris Dorfman – a mentsh

by Uwe & Gabriela von Seltmann

© Apfelstrudel Media Berlin

Genre: Artistic Documentary (50 min length)

Location and Time: Lviv (Ukraine), 13^th – 20^th October 2013

Year of Production (end): 2014, April

Language: Yiddish – subtitles in English, German and Polish

Exhibition Format: DCP, Digital Beta, DVD, Blu-ray, MP4

„A Mentsh“ is a movie shot entirely in the Yiddish language. It’s set in the former multinational city of Lviv, Ukraine, and the first part of a planned Yiddish trilogy (Lviv, Tel Aviv, New York). Lviv was a centre of Jewish life for more than 600 years. During World War II this special culture was destroyed. 75 years after the beginning of the war, Boris Dorfman takes us on an oneiric trip to all the places of horror and hope reflecting the Jewish history. The 90-year-old activist is virtually the last one in town still speaking the almost extinct language of Yiddish – he is like a living relic of the past and a fighter against oblivion. While remembering the past, he lives in the present and tries to prepare the people for the future – he is „a mentsh“, someone full of love and empathy.

Written and directed by Uwe and Gabriela von Seltmann

Production: Apfelstrudel Media Berlin

Producer: Kai-Alexander Moslé, Uwe P. Tietz, Uwe & Gabriela von Seltmann

Co-Production: Stowarzyszenie Film Kraków

Executive Producer: Aneta Zagórska

Director of Photography and Film Editor: Marek Gajczak

Sound: Michał Dominowski

Music: Christian Dawid