AWARDS

BLUE RIBBON FIRST PRIZE CINE Golden Eagle (1973)
HONORS Festival di Populi, Florence (1973)
SILVER PLAQUE Chicago International Film Festival (1974)

SELECTED SCREENINGS

The American Film Festival 1974

Produced for the Women's American ORT and narrated by Eli Wallach, this highly acclaimed documentary describes more than a century of Jewish life in Russia. Stills and archival footage recreate the life of the Russian-Jewish community from the shtetl through the first World War, the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto, the displaced persons camps and the establishment of the State of Israel. L'Chaim: To Life also examines the origins and activities of the ORT, a movement dedicated to the vocational training and education of the Jewish people.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"The inescapable fact of man's inhumanity to man and his will to survive is brought into soberingly sharp focus... these are pointed and artistic documentations of a shocking past that deserves to be kept vividly alive."
- A.H. Weber, The New York Times, February 7, 1975

PURCHASE DVD

HOME USE ONLY $36.00 plus shipping Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional Use) Does not include Public Performance Rights Home Use Policy (pdf)

INSTITUTIONAL USE $72.00 plus shipping Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVD Does not include Public Performance Rights Institutional Use Policy (pdf)

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L'Chaim: To Life

USA, 1973, 80 minutes, B&W/color
Directed by Harold Mayer

$72 Institutional Use DVD
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$36 Home Use DVD
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Public Exhibition 16mm, Beta Rental also available