Wolf
Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989) was head of the Jewish Council of the artificial ghetto of Terezín (Theresienstadt in German). The Nazis made him representative of the community destined for extermination. Victim of a tragic contradiction, after the Liberation he was tried and absolved from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis; he moved to Rome, where he was ostracized by the Jewish community until he died. His son Wolf devoted his life to redeem his image, trying to paint a more complex picture of the role his father played in Terezín. The film reconstructs through the conversation between Wolf and the psychoanalyst David Meghnagi a son's relationship with the memory of his father, between the acceptance, the denial, and the thematization of a common and familiar tragedy.
- Year: 2013
- Country: Italy, Czech Republic
- Genre: Documentary
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- Director: Claudio Giovannesi
- Cast: Wolf Murmelstein, David Meghnagi, Riccardo Di Segni, Anna Murmelstein, Toman Brod, Markéta Pacovská
