Title: A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Wasserman Cinematheque, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

It is Austria 1936 and Leonidas Tachezy (Gabriel Barylli), an Austrian government official happily married to the daughter of a prominent family, receives a unsettling letter. Twelve years before, as a student in Germany, he had an affair with a Jewish woman. Now she is asking for his help in placing a half-Jewish eleven year old boy in an Austrian school. This dramatic and complex film, based on a novella by the Jewish author Franz Werfel (1890-1945) delves into a man's ethical crisis. Is the child his? Should he help, and at a time when the Nazis are on the rise?

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Of the tens of thousands of Czech Jews deported during the Holocaust most were sent to virtually unknown camps and ghettos. Of those, fewer than 300 survived. (Czech deportees to Auschwitz survived at 10 times this rate.) To Estonia traces the 3-year odyssey of several dozen young women who arrived in Estonia in 1942 aboard a transport of 1000 Czech Jews. Amazingly, the women quickly formed a mutual support network, surviving together through a willful combination of youthful naiveté, denial, humor, optimism and camaraderie. Special Guest: Director Lukas Pribyl (Brandeis '96). Introduction will be given by Joanna Michlic, Director of the HBI Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust.

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