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  • Il respiro di Shlomo (2023)
  • 58 min | Documentary
Il respiro di Shlomo (2023)
58 min | Documentary
Shlomo Venezia's story starts in Greece, in Thessaloniki, within one of the biggest and most vital communities in the Mediterranean. It passes through the places which witnessed the black hole of 20th century history - Auschwitz, Birkenau,...See moreShlomo Venezia's story starts in Greece, in Thessaloniki, within one of the biggest and most vital communities in the Mediterranean. It passes through the places which witnessed the black hole of 20th century history - Auschwitz, Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen - and later brings the observer to Italy, to Udine and finally to Rome. Recounting Shlomo's life means dealing with complex issues that only a documentary can convey with immediacy and strength. It also entails focusing on the value of the testimony that Shlomo generously gave and at the same time on the reticence in passing on his own tragic experience to his children, who only found out about their father's past in adulthood. The narration allows for an in-depth look at an almost untold dimension of the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the life of the Sonderkommando, that group of deportees - of which Shlomo was a member - who had the cruel task of working inside the extermination camps and were thus forced to live in close contact with the corpses and the horror of systematic slaughter. The documentary about Shlomo Venezia, produced by the Fondazione Museo della Shoah, will touch on all the themes associated with the Shoah: uprooting from one's community of origin and familiar places, the unbearable pain of losing loved ones and the need to survive surrounded by death. In doing so, however, the spirit of Shlomo, a man always one step ahead in understanding situations, who survived thanks to his own foresight and the advice of more experienced deportees, will emerge. Ruggero Gabbai's directorial choice is to follow the breath, the one that Zyklon B took away from hundreds of Jews every day, the one that Shlomo seemed to lose while returning to those very places and talking about Auschwitz. The documentary will retrace and go back to the places of his life in Greece and his arrest - the Jewish quarter of Thessaloniki, Athens, Haidari Prison - and will combine testimonies by Holocaust historian and author of the film, Marcello Pezzetti, with that of experts who will talk about multi-century-old Jewish life in Greece, combining it with the personal accounts of Shlomo's sons. However, the film will be based primarily on Shlomo's direct testimony, collected by the author and director themselves for the CDEC (the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation) Memory Archive almost 30 years ago. Shlomo himself will lead the story, and his voice will take us through his very hard and painful experience in a valuable documentary of historical reconstruction. See less
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Ruggero Gabbai
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Cristian Dondi | Chiara Passoni
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Jan 27, 2023 (Italy)

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