Film

Wolf (2013)

• 1 janvier 2013

• Documentaire

Synopsis

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.

Réalisateur

Claudio Giovannesi

Scénaristes

Claudio Giovannesi, David Meghnagi

Avec

Wolf Murmelstein, David Meghnagi, Riccardo Di Segni