A few days before his daughter’s lavish wedding, Polish businessman Rysiek finds two Israeli men delivering a Righteous Among the Nations medal to his elderly father. Unnerved by what that reveals about his family’s hidden past, Rysiek tries to keep it quiet—but the medal awakens memories for his father, who confuses his granddaughter’s big day with a very different wedding that occurred in the same place back in 1941. At a time when the Polish government continues to suppress public discussion of Polish crimes against Jews during the Nazi occupation, Wojciech Smarzowski’s controversial new film is especially provocative and brave.
The Wedding Day
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This series is sponsored by:
John and Linda Ehrlich
Susan Katz and Seth Truwit
George and Judy Marchese
Roberta and Joseph Rosenblum
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Anonymous
Nadia and Bob Bernstein
Bonnie Gale
Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP
AJC Westchester/Fairfield receives generous support from the following donors which helps to make this sponsorship possible:
Sponsors
Anonymous
Stephne and Kerrin Behrend
Froma and Andrew Benerofe
Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow
Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt
Susan and Dr. Elliott Rose
Harriet and Leonard Schleifer
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Patrons
Susan and Mark Alcott
Bet Torah
Gail A. Binderman
Paula Blumenfeld and Joseph Gantz
George Bruckman
Nina Freedman and Michael Rosenbaum
Debra and Jeffrey Geller
Ruth S. Greer
Lynn and Jules Kroll
Denise and David Levine
The Leroy Family
Amy and Frank Linde
Cheryl Brandes Pine and Lloyd Pine
Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Inc.
Yvonne and Leslie Pollack Foundation, Inc.
Heidi and Richard Rieger
Judy and Steven Rieger
Evelyn and Brian Rosen
Beverly and Michael Rosenbaum
Linda and Dr. Norton Rosensweig
Deborah and Stephen Schwartz
Susan and Joel Schwartz
Janice and Ira Starr
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The Wedding Day
Tickets: $12 (members), $17 (nonmembers)
“A masterful and provocative high-wire act...of intense social relevance. Filmmaker Wojciech Smarzowski makes a spectacle out of a confrontational revisiting of the national collective memory in an unorthodox approach to a Holocaust movie.”
“Unusually strong and emotive...The Wedding Day exposes unpalatable events and themes in Poland’s history that some Poles would rather bury and forget. Wojciech Smarzowski courageously resurrects them in a hard-hitting, warts-and-all film that respects the bitter truth.”
This film is part of the Jewish Film Festival 2022 series.
This series is sponsored by:
John and Linda Ehrlich
Susan Katz and Seth Truwit
George and Judy Marchese
Roberta and Joseph Rosenblum
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Anonymous
Nadia and Bob Bernstein
Bonnie Gale
Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP
AJC Westchester/Fairfield receives generous support from the following donors which helps to make this sponsorship possible:
Sponsors
Anonymous
Stephne and Kerrin Behrend
Froma and Andrew Benerofe
Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow
Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt
Susan and Dr. Elliott Rose
Harriet and Leonard Schleifer
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Patrons
Susan and Mark Alcott
Bet Torah
Gail A. Binderman
Paula Blumenfeld and Joseph Gantz
George Bruckman
Nina Freedman and Michael Rosenbaum
Debra and Jeffrey Geller
Ruth S. Greer
Lynn and Jules Kroll
Denise and David Levine
The Leroy Family
Amy and Frank Linde
Cheryl Brandes Pine and Lloyd Pine
Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Inc.
Yvonne and Leslie Pollack Foundation, Inc.
Heidi and Richard Rieger
Judy and Steven Rieger
Evelyn and Brian Rosen
Beverly and Michael Rosenbaum
Linda and Dr. Norton Rosensweig
Deborah and Stephen Schwartz
Susan and Joel Schwartz
Janice and Ira Starr
With support from:
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