In 2017, we will commemorate the 140th anniversary of birth and the 75th anniversary of murder of Mordechai Gebirtig (1877 – 1942). We would like to invite all people to remember and honor the life and legacy of the great Yiddish poet and singer and bring him back to the public awareness.
Premiere of our Multimedia Show „Ikh hob gehat a zisn kholem – I had a sweet dream“ at 25th Krakow Jewish Culture Festival:
Date: 30 June, 9 pm
Venue: Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, ul. Dajwór 18
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We had a great time – thank you so much for inviting us to Warsaw!
The Catalogue
The Directors Gabriela & Uwe von Seltmann
Mordechai Gebirtig was with us – Info about our new project here (soon more):
http://www.film.krakow.pl/gebirtig-eng.html
The Cinema
The Audience – Full House and great Q&A!
Fotos: UvS, Festival, Jay Raucher-Osborn
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Eingeordnet unter Allgemeines, Film Yiddish, Krakau, Musik, Polen, Ukraine
Eingeordnet unter Allgemeines, Krakau, Polen, Ukraine
Shik mir a shtral
Vos zol balaykhtn mayne vegn
Tsutrayb dem vint, vos er bashevet antkegn
Shik mir di zun, zi zol oystrikenen di trern
Vos yorn fil, zey flisn shtil
Un kenen nit oyfhern …
Send me a ray
To light my path
Drive away the wind that howls in my face
Send the sun to dry my tears
That have flown silently for years
And cannot stop …
(Author unknown, performed by Christian Dawid for our Yiddish film Boris Dorfman – A mentsh)
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Eingeordnet unter Allgemeines, Krakau, Polen, Ukraine
Screening at Galicia Jewish Museum on 1st of July 2014 with special guest Juliusz Handwerker. He is one of the last Yiddish speakers in Krakow, born before the World War II in Lemberg.
Lomir ale in eynem freylekh zayn – לאָמיר אַלע אין איינעם פריילעך זייַן
Boris Dorfman – A Mentsh: Special Video „Let us all together be joyous …“ – dedicated to Boris Dorfman and our friends in Lemberg/Lviv
אַ האַרציקן דאַנק די פילע יחידים און אינסטיטוציעס אין לעמבערג, וועלכע האָבן אונדז דערמוטיקט און געהאָלפן בײַם שאַפן דעם דאָזיקן פילם
Our heartfelt thanks to the many friends and institutions in Lviv who helped and encouraged us in making this film!
A radically Yiddish Film: Boris Dorfman – A Mentsh
by Uwe & Gabriela von Seltmann
© Apfelstrudel Media Berlin
music by Christian Dawid
film & music edited by Marek Gajczak
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Special Screening of Boris Dorfman – A mentsh on the occasion of Yiddish Days Lviv (15-19 May) and Boris Dorfman’s 91st birthday:
Venue: Kino „Kopernik“, Boulevard Kopernika 9, Lviv
Date: Sunday, 18 May, 3pm
A cordial invitation – ברוכים־הבאים
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Soon on Festivals, in Cinemas …:
by Uwe & Gabriela von Seltmann
© Apfelstrudel Media Berlin
Genre: Artistic Documentary (50 min length)
Location and Time: Lviv (Ukraine), 13th – 20th 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
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