Sunday Schmooze: Brunch, Film, and Discussion

Directed by Alexander Sokurov

THE SUN

Sunday, January 24 • Bagel Brunch at 10am • Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with CAC Co-Director Vic Skolnick

$9 Members / $12 Public / Includes Bagel Brunch

Active Membership Wil Be Checked

Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or

by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.

Also Screening January 25 at 7:30pm (Regular Admission)

“Mr. Ogata is mesmerizing. As a portrait of pathology,

that of Japan and of Hirohito both, it’s terrific.”

— Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

August 15, 1945: a shocked Japan hears the voice of divine leader Emperor Hirohito for the
first time, as he implores his people to cease all military activity, initiating a formal end to WWII and the beginning of a new period of American Occupation, led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother and Son, Alexandra) creates an incisive, eerie portrait of the enigmatic Hirohito during the twilight of the war, as he faces surrender and renunciation of his divine status. Issey Ogata (YI YI) gives a mesmerizing performance as the defeated emperor who had been considered a god, and whose every step was planned and executed by a large staff. The film builds to stunning climax with Hirohito’s legendary meetings with MacArthur where they determine the fate of his nation and lay the foundation for Japan’s phoenix-like postwar reconstruction. Russia, 2005, 115 min.

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KILLING KASZTNER

The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis

In Person: Filmmaker Gaylen Ross

Monday, Feb. 1 at 6:35pm

Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 6:35pm

(Regular Admission)

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HERO OR TRAITOR? Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more lives. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial and verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." He was ultimately assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957. Director Gaylen Ross investigates this tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner's assassin, Ze'ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner's daughter, Zsuzsi.

USA, 2008, 116 min.• Director: Gaylen Ross

"See this film to understand the choices the Holocaust forced human beings to make."

- Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust survivor

"Brilliant.. I urge everyone, jew and Gentile, to see this film"

Former NY Mayor Ed Kich, The Atlantic Monthly

"Superb!" - Marty Perez, The New Republic

"Splendid!" - Jerome Chanes, The Forward

"One of the Ten Best Films of The Year" - Hannah Brown, The Jerusalem Post