Tuesday, June 6, at 1 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema
Israel; in Hebrew, English, German, and Polish with English subtitles; 110 minutes
Two sisters uncover their father’s secret past in the true story-based Israeli mystery Past Life, one of the films playing as part of the annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The film is also set to return to the Plaza Frontenac Cinema on June 9 for a longer theatrical run.
The film is an intriguing look into Israel in the late 1970s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and crumbling of European communism, when many survivors of the Holocaust did not speak about their wartime experiences as they focused on building their young nation.
In 1977, young Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger), an Israeli music student with a lovely soprano voice but ambitions to be a composer, travels to West Berlin for a concert with her school choir. After the concert, an elderly...
Israel; in Hebrew, English, German, and Polish with English subtitles; 110 minutes
Two sisters uncover their father’s secret past in the true story-based Israeli mystery Past Life, one of the films playing as part of the annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The film is also set to return to the Plaza Frontenac Cinema on June 9 for a longer theatrical run.
The film is an intriguing look into Israel in the late 1970s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and crumbling of European communism, when many survivors of the Holocaust did not speak about their wartime experiences as they focused on building their young nation.
In 1977, young Sephi Milch (Joy Rieger), an Israeli music student with a lovely soprano voice but ambitions to be a composer, travels to West Berlin for a concert with her school choir. After the concert, an elderly...
- 5/31/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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