REMEMBER starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau
Shown with the new short film IMMUNITY
Writer/Producer Shari Umansky and Executive Producer Adam Broder in person!
Sunday, May 15. Bagels at 10 am, Film at 11 am
$10 Members | $15 Public – Includes bagel brunch and post film discussion
Join Host and holocaust studies scholar Fred Craden for a commemorative Holocaust
Remembrance experience with the showing and discussing of the films Remember and Immunity.
Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau star in Atom Egoyan’s gripping thriller about an Auschwitz survivor with dementia who goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family
This thrillingly fast-paced revenge story screened at both Venice and Toronto, is about Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old struggling with memory loss who is living out his final years in a serene retirement home. Following the death of his beloved wife Ruth, he receives a mysterious package from his close friend Max (Martin Landau), containing a stack of money and a letter detailing a shocking plan. Both Zev and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and the same sadistic guard was responsible for the death of both their families—a guard who, immediately after the war, escaped Germany and has been living in the U.S. ever since under an assumed identity. Max is wheelchair-bound but in full command of his mental faculties; with his guidance, Zev will embark on a cross-continental road-trip to bring justice once and for all to the man who destroyed both their lives.(Canada, Germany, 2015, 95 min., R, DCP | Dir. Atom Egoyan | Toronto Film Festival)
Shown with IMMUNITY
Writer/Producer Shari Umansky and Executive Producer Adam Broder in person!
In 1942, in a small interrogation room at Auschwitz, a deadly game is playing out between a Jewish teacher (Rena Sofer) and her former student (Stephano DaFre). Based on the Aurora Award winning Off-Broadway play. (USA, 2016, 20 min |Dir. Alyn Darnay)
Save the Date! The next Sunday Schmooze is 99 HOMES starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon on Sunday, June 5th.