Jewish Film Festival with Ilja Richter
- June 5, 2016 at Filmkunst 66 from 5 p.m. -
We invite you to experience Ilja Richter first as a person, as a seeker, as a border crosser in "God and the World", a movie by Ravi Karmalker, and immediately afterwards as the director of the documentary film "Hotel Bogota - A Unique Story".
17:00 - Screening GOD AND THE WORLD - 45 min.
17:45 - Screening HOTEL BOGOTA - 45 min
18:30 - Talk with Ilja Richter at the cinema - 20 minutes - hosted by Shelly Kupferberg
18:50 - Small drink in the upper foyer
Ilja Richter is at the center of the third part of the Grenzgänge trilogy. It concludes the series of films featuring prominent Actors and entertainers who confront very personal questions about life and values. These are journeys into the inner self, to the fears, hopes and insights of people we otherwise only know in their roles on screen.
We have a contingent of guest tickets and would be pleased to receive your registration atneidig.
The author and Actors Ilja Richter has Jewish roots. His mother was Jewish, but without any particular religious affiliation. They wanted to be a normal German family. Today, in his early 60s, Ilja Richter senses that something is unresolved. This becomes particularly clear when he meets his old friend Ilse - she is also Jewish. When he visits her, he feels "somehow Jewish". But what exactly does that actually mean? With this question in mind, Ilja Richter sets off on the trail of Jewish life in his home city of Berlin. Whether in a dance class where traditional dances are practiced, on a kosher inspection, at a service in an orthodox Jewish community or preparing a young girl for her bat mitzvah. Again and again, Richter encounters questions that move him personally - and at the same time show him how colorful and diverse Jewish life in Berlin is.
Hotel Bogota - A unique story
For almost 50 years, the Hotel Bogota in Berlin-Charlottenburg was considered an institution. The small hotel at Schlüterstraße 45 - built in 1911 - was a house with a lot of history. Helmut Newton was apprenticed here to "Yva", the most famous fashion photographer in Germany at the time. Newton later said that this time was the best of his life. During the Second World War, the building was the headquarters of the Reich Chamber of Culture with its director Hans Hinkel, where all the big names of the German entertainment industry at the time had to audition. After the war, the victorious powers set up their denazification authority at Schlüterstraße 45. Hanna Schygulla, Dieter Hallervorden, Dani Levy, Jim Rakete and many others bring the past to life. With the closure of the hotel in December 2013, Ilja Richter also sheds light on the extensive changes that have been taking place in Berlin for years.
New Kammerspiele Kleinmachnow
and watches a gem from 1962, with Ilja Richter as the white mouse. "Black on White" is a parable about racism. The white mice live on the first floor and the gray mice in the cellar. One day, Ilja Richter, as a little white mouse, decides to go up to the attic and ask God why the white mice are better than the gray mice. The good Lord must know, because he turns on the light every evening. The staircase lighting. The SFB television film (author Ephraim Kishon), directed by Hanns Korngiebel, features the crème de la crème of Berlin theater actors: Edith Hancke, Horst Bollmann, Herbert Grünbaum and Ilja Richter at the age of 9.
20:00 - Talk with Ilja Richter - Moderated by Shelly Kupferberg
20:30 - 22:00 Screening "Black on White"