Against a backdrop of searing historical footage lyrically interwoven with images of daily struggle in contemporarry Israel, we meet Cordelia Edvardson, a journalist, author and Auschwitz survivor who has dedicated her career to exposing injustice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a child in Auschwitz she learned a terrible lesson: “You have to care, or else you´ll die”. As an adult, Edvardson left a life in Sweden to take up her self-appointed task in Jerusalem. Renowned documentary filmmaker Stefan Jarl has created an unusually sensitive film that sounds out deep resonances as it moves carefully among Edvardson´s camp experience, Jarl´s own understanding of the Holocaust and Edvardson´s efforts to adress oppression today.
M. Simon, Mill Valley Film Festival
"An extraardinary film portrait of a courageous woman... A film of integrity about a woman who defines the very word INTEGRITY."
/Tom Luddy, Director of Telluride Film Festival
"Stefan Jarl once again proves he is the master at creating a pogiant personal story and making it universal to all. An exquisite, uplifting triubue to dignity off all mankind"
/Mark Fishkin, Director of Mill Walley Film Festival
"Using horrifying archive footage from Auschwitz combined with present-day material from Israel and interviews with the carismatic woman, "The Girl from Auschwitz" is an enriching film that simply makes you feel there are some people in this world you can´t help but admire."
/DOX, Documentary Film Magazine, issue 62
"It´s very heartening to be given such a wonderful insight into such an extraordinary woman and her history and current work. We thoroughly enjoyed the film..."
/Cork Film FestivalFACTS:
35 mm, 1:1,66, colour, 76 min., 2005ShopRead more, Interview by Jonathan Marlow)
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Stefan Jarl, född 18 mars 1941, dokumentärfilmare och filmregissör. Stefan Jarl är känd för att göra filmer med ett socialt engagemang. Stefan Jarl
