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Celebrating Axel Corti
January 17, 20 & 21 ~ 2008

The New York Jewish Film Festival pays tribute to the gifted Austrian stage, television, and film director Axel Corti (1933 - 1993) with this festival-within-the-festival.

Admission: $11 general public; $7 Film Society & Jewish Museum members and students; $7 seniors weekday matinee screenings only. Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office.

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God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
Axel Corti, Austria, 1982; 110m
After Kristallnacht and the murder of his father in 1938, a young Viennese Jew flees for Prague, where he meets a German soldier (Armin Mueller Stahl) who opposes the Nazis, and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together they escape to Marseille, from whence they hope to sail to a safe port.

 


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Sun Jan 20: 6:15pm

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Santa Fe
Axel Corti, Austria, 1985; 110m
In 1940, a ship arrives in New York harbor filled with exhausted Jewish immigrants desperate to begin a new life. Freddy struggles to find work, learn English and overcome alienation. His refugee acquaintances include the depressed daughter of a delicatessen owner, an aging, unemployed surgeon and a lovable charlatan photographer. This absorbing picture examines the hopes, doubts and memories of exiles.




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Mon Jan 21: 3:45

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Welcome in Vienna
Axel Corti, Austria, 1986; 125m
Freddy, a Viennese Jew who immigrated to New York after Hitler’s invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual, return to Austria in 1944 as American soldiers. The advent of the Cold War and anti-Semitism shatter the idealism of both characters in this brilliant narrative.




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Mon Jan 21: 6:00

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A Woman’s Pale Blue Handwriting
Axel Corti, Austria, 1984; 106m
In 1936 a high official in the Austrian Ministry of Education receives a letter from an ex-lover asking for help in placing a half-Jewish German boy in an Austrian school. This dramatic and complex film, based on a novella by Franz Werfel, delves into a man’s ethical crisis.




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Thu Jan 17: 8:15

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