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| | | | | Movie: Tovarisch, I am not dead, dir.Stuart Urban (UK)
18. Jewish Culture Festival
The film takes the form not of a standard biographical documentary but a probing analysis of an identity, a rolling narrative whose chapters bring fresh surprises as we come into the 21st century.
Garri Urban was a survivor – not a victim – of both the Holocaust and Gulag. He overcame adversity through a mixture of charm, aggression, and chutzpah. His autobiographical account of his adventures took its title from real story. In 1992 his son, film-maker Stuart Urban, follows Garri into the former Soviet Union as soon as Communism disintegrates. The video diaries that were made over a 14 year quest into Garri’s KGB records and the fate of his family in the Holocaust, plus extensive 16mm Kodachrome home movies from the 1950s onwards, form the core of the film. As Stuart closely questions his father while he is alive, and then goes in search of answers he could not get until his father was dead.
Special thanks to Warsaw Jewish Film Festival for sharing a Polish transcript.
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