Film series »Rückkehr«

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Dubnow Institute is showing a selection of films that deal with surviving and living on. The films originate from Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and Israel and cover a period from the 1960s to the present day. The series of international feature and documentary films, curated by the former director of the Hamburg Film Festival Albert Wiederspiel and Yfaat Weiss, also invites you to talk to directors, actors and experts from Germany and abroad.

Kick-off: Thursday, May 8, 2025, 6 p.m., Passage Kinos Leipzig
From May 14, 2025, a total of six films will be shown every fortnight, always on Wednesdays at 6 pm, at Passage Kinos Leipzig.

Program

Thursday, 8 May 2025, 6 p.m.
»Ich war neunzehn « 
(Director: Konrad Wolf, DDR 1967) 

Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 6 p.m.
»Titos Brille« 
(Director: Regina Schilling, D 2014)

Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 6 p.m.
»Watermarks« 
(Director: Yaron Zilberman, IL/USA/FR/ 2004)

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 6 p.m.
»Aftermath« 
(Director: Władysław Pasikowski, PL 2012)

Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 6 p.m.
»Alles ist erleuchtet« 
(Director: Liev Schreiber, USA 2005)

Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 6 p.m.
 »The Property« 
(Director: Dana Modan, IL/PL 2024)

About the photo:

The Jewish painter and theater director Jakub Rotbaum (1901-1994) survived the Holocaust in New York. In 1947, he visited his home country of Poland. In the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, Rotbaum is the subject of a poignant series of photographs, which are currently on display in the exhibition »The Determining gaze. Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland« at the Dubnow Institute. This private series was taken on May 2, 1947, probably by someone close to him who was willing to accompany him to places that were significant and dear to him, now turned to dust and ashes.

In 1949, at the request of the actress Ida Kamińska, Rotbaum returned to Poland and became the artistic director of the Lower Silesian Jewish Theater in Wrocław.