Ruth Beckermann Collection (10 Films) - 8-DVD Box Set ( ARENA BESETZT / AUF AMOL A STREIK / DER HAMMER STEHT AUF DER WIES'N DA DRAUSSEN / WIEN RETOUR / DIE PAPIERENE BRÜCKE / NACH JERUSALEM / JENSEITS DES KRIEGES / EIN FLÜCHTIGER ZUG NACH DEM ORIENT / HOMEMAD(E) / ZORROS BAR MIZWA ) ( ARENA SQATTED / SUDDENLY, A STRIKE / THE STEEL HAMMER OUT THERE ON THE GRASS / RETURN TO VIENNA / PAPER BRIDGE / TOWARDS JERUSALEM / EAST OF WAR / A FLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT / HOMEMAD(E) / ZORRO'S BAR MITZVA )

Ruth Beckermann Collection (10 Films) - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: ARENA BESETZT / AUF AMOL A STREIK / DER HAMMER STEHT AUF DER WIES'N DA DRAUSSEN / WIEN RETOUR / DIE PAPIERENE BRÜCKE / NACH JERUSALEM / JENSEITS DES KRIEGES / EIN FLÜCHTIGER ZUG NACH DEM ORIENT / HOMEMAD(E) / ZORROS BAR MIZWA
Alternate Title: ARENA SQATTED / SUDDENLY, A STRIKE / THE STEEL HAMMER OUT THERE ON THE GRASS / RETURN TO VIENNA / PAPER BRIDGE / TOWARDS JERUSALEM / EAST OF WAR
/ A FLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT / HOMEMAD(E) / ZORRO'S BAR MITZVA
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
766 min + 108 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1977 - 2006 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )
Israel ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Josef Aichholzer
Ruth Beckermann

Written By:
Franz West
Ruth Beckermann

Actors:
Josef Aichholzer
Adolf Doft
Helene Doft
Erika Göschl
Dieter Haspel
Tina Reimann
Senta Segall
Ruth Beckermann
Niki Kunz ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Original language audio with English & French subtitles***A reflexion on the power of images and on collective memory beautifully arranged in a 8 DVD box set and supplementary textbook. Films dealing with the repressed remembrance of the period of national socialism: RETURN TO VIENNA (2011), PAPER BRIDGE (1987), EAST OF WAR (1996). Documentary road-movies: TOWARDS JERUSALEM (1990), A FLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT (1999). The „coffeehouse-film' HOMEMAD(E) (2001), a piece about Austrian sensitivities at the time of the political „turnabout' resulting from the government-coalition with the extreme right. ZORRO'S BAR MITZVA, released 2006/07, an entertaining „coming-of-age' film accompaning four jewish adolescents as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot. Early films on the topics of labour disputes and the „Arena squatting': ARENA SQUATTED - SUDDENLY, A STRIKE - THE STEEL HAMMER OUT THERE ON THE GRASS
Each film is accompanied by a recent interview with the filmmaker. This collection comprises for the first time photos and documents, a portrait of the filmmaker and her early works.
List of Films:
ARENA SQATTED (1977)
SUDDENLY, A STRIKE (1978)
THE STEEL HAMMER OUT THERE ON THE GRASS (1981)
RETURN TO VIENNA (1983)
PAPER BRIDGE (1987)
TOWARDS JERUSALEM (1990)
EAST OF WAR (1996)
A FLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT (1999)
HOMEMAD(E) (2001)
ZORRO'S BAR MITZVA (2006)

ARENA SQATTED (1977)
By means of material that was created in the Arena the film shows the squatting, the organization of collective work, the negotiations with the city and finally the demolition of the buildings. It calls to memory, how a generation had been politicized through their involvement in the Arena movement.

SUDDENLY, A STRIKE (1978)
Semperit Traiskirchen 17.4. - 11.5.1978: In the tire factory Semperit the only strike after World War II takes place in May 1978, lasting for three weeks. The film shows the course of the strike in interviews, photos, graphics and talks at a pub; it draws attention to the position of the union between its loyality to the workers and its responsibilities towards the entrepeneurs.

THE STEEL HAMMER OUT THERE ON THE GRASS (1981)
On March 28th 1981, 10.000 people take to the streets. The city of Judenburg demonstrates for the preservation of their steel plant. The demonstration is a start, a late attempt to avert the threat of job loss. The film shows how the international steel crisis affects Austria.

RETURN TO VIENNA (1983)
Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the variety of the Jewish population of the so called Matzah-Island, his commitment to the worker's movement of the Red Vienna and the rise of Austro-fascism and National Socialism. West's masterly narration combined with impressing archive footage illustrate and elucidate the complex Austrian history between WW1 and WW2.

PAPER BRIDGE (1987)
Paper Bridge is a journey through Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region. It takes her from Vienna, where her grandmother survived the war and the nazis in hiding and to which her mother returned from Israel, to the landscapes of her father's childhood: the Bukowina, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

TOWARDS JERUSALEM (1990)
What became of the dream of a jewish homeland?
On the road from the west towards Jerusalem. A documentary road movie: trucks, gas stations, construction workers, soldiers, Russian refugees, taxi drivers, security guards... Encounters on a mere 40 miles with divers landscapes and individual stories.

EAST OF WAR (1996)
White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion.

A FLEETING PASSAGE TO THE ORIENT (1999)
When the camera gazes from the deck of the ship towards the endless horizon of the Mediterranean, the picture of a woman who travelled restlessly across the world takes shape. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, who gradually disappears out of the picture as it were: from the age of 30 she refused to be photographed any more.

HOMEMAD(E) (2001)
Marc Aurel-Strasse, Vienna: The last surviving Jewish textile merchant in what in former days was the textile district, the Iranian hotel proprietor and the Café Salzgries with its regulars. From summer 1999 until spring 2000, Ruth Beckermann undertook a series of small journeys on and around her own doorstep and investigated her locality with the help of a film camera. The film gives also evidence of the political turnabout which went along with the joining of the government-coalition by the extreme right.

ZORRO'S BAR MITZVA (2006)
At the Wailing Wall or in the spotlight of a stage, wearing a Zorro costume or a designer dress, solemn or rollicking: crossing the threshold to the adult world can take place in very different ways. This film accompanies four 12-year-olds - Sharon, Tom, Moishy and Sophie - as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot. It takes a critical and ironic look at Jewish tradition and its interpretations, questions the significance of initiation rituals, and attempts to explore the diffuse terrain of adolescence.

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