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Joshua Sobol
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Weininger's Last Night · 1990Weininger's Last Night
★ 5.91990
MovieDrama
This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.
Ghetto · 2006Ghetto
★ 6.82006
MovieHistoryWar
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
Farewell Column · 2023Farewell Column
★ 10.02023
MovieDrama
2020. Corona era. A journalist with an opinion column who receives hateful messages and threats on his cell phone tries in vain to reach his autistic son who lives in a hostel. His daughter went to protest in Balfour and is not answering the phone. He and his wife go to look for her at the demonstration and try to repair their relationship.
Mr. Kohl's Final Hour · 2021Mr. Kohl's Final Hour
2021
Movie
While waiting to check into prison, lawyer Mickey Kohl attempts to finalize the details of a break in a case he lost. Based on the highly acclaimed play by Joshua Sobol, "Mr. Kohl's Final Hour" is a mono-drama dealing with a single man's struggle against a corrupt social, economic, and legal system that is based on greed.
Alma - A Show biz ans Ende · 1999Alma - A Show biz ans Ende
★ 3.31999
Series
A journey in the footsteps of this century's most famous artist's muse, the last femme fatale. Alma Mahler -Werfel was worshipped by an entire generation of artists: Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka and Franz Werfel.
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