Black Honey, The Life & Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

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Throughout his life, Abraham Sutzkever would not let a film about his life be made. Nearly a decade after his passing in 2010, “Black Honey” tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. Sutzkever led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis. H survived the Holocaust thanks to Stalin sending a private plane to rescue him. He testified in the Nuremberg Trials and immigrated to Israel in 1947. In Israel, he became the leading figure of Yiddish culture and continued writing with astonishing vitality.

Director: Uri Barbash. Producer: Yair Qedar. Script: Uri Barbash, Hadas Kalderon. Cinematography: Tulik Gal’on. Editor: Ori Derdikman. Original Music: Alon Lotringer. Sound Design: Ami Arad. Supporters: Makor Foundation, the Israel Film Service, the Avi Chai Foundation, the Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, the Israel Film Service, Beit Shalom Aleichem. Special Mention Award at the Haifa International Film Festival “Between Israeli and Jewish Identity Competition Section.” ISRAEL 2018, 76 minutes. Hebrew, English, Yiddish. Subtitles: English, Hebrew, French, Russian, German, Yiddish.

Fantastic, important and fascinating cinema — Raya Morag, Haaretz; Alternative heroism of words, thought and spirit — Prof. Anar Preminger; Masterpiece — Eliaz Cohen: Emotional depth — Prof. Dan Miron; Wonderful balance of documentary, poetic, visual and textual — Prof. Dov Kolka; A wonderful, exciting, remarkable and moving film — Sivan Har Shefi

ֿWho will stay behind, and what? A wind./Blindness from the blind man disappearing./ A token of the sea: a strand of foam./ A cloud stuck in a tree.// Who will stay behind, and what? A single sound/ as genesis regrasses its creation./ Like the violin rose that honors just itself./ Seven grasses of that grass do understand.// More than all the stars hence and northward,/that star will stay that sinks into a tear./ Forever in its jug, a drop of wine remains.// What will be left here? God. Not enough for you?

Black Honey, The Life & Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

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