The programme for the XII international festival
of Czech-German-Jewish culture
Nine Gates 2011

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Summe part
Winter part

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Winter


Kino Evald - Národní třída 28, Prgue 1

Tuesday 27. December

5 pm
Documentary Film
Thank God for football / CZ, 2009
Directed by: Ivan Stehlík
Documentary about football and football players in the Terezín ghetto between 1943 and 1944. A documentary about those who loved and played football at the very threshold of death, and whom this game gave faith and hope. A documentary about those for whom life meant football. Documentary about the fact that football is one of the most peaceful arts of man.
Czech TV and Pavel Chalupa

6:30 pm
Film
Diamonds of the Night / Czechoslovakia, 1964
Directed by: Jan němec
Theme: Arnošt Lustig
The image of two Czech youths escape from the death march is dynamised vkomponováním deepened and semantic associative experiences flashbacks and visions of one of them. In repeated screenings of his dreams, fears and desires of all human živočišnému receding, proportionately with the increasing pressure of threats. Materialization vividly naturalistic situation of refugees - their hunger, fatigue, anxiety, self-preserving instinct urge - all this reflects an attempt to save at any cost. The pair becomes the hunted, which hunts senile old men Sudeten villages, showing the government powerless. The film portrays stream of consciousness, transposing the inner vision and austere original form tight, revealing the depth of anxiety, loneliness crazy, humble humanity, inability to communicate with someone suffering and the human element as stolen in a hostile world. Leitmotif is the desire for security, presented as the desire for home. Němcův feature debut is one of the absolute top of Czech cinematography.
FSB / NFA


Wednesday 28. December

5 pm
Documentary Film
My dad and his favorite concentration camps / CZ, 2010
Directed by: Josef Lustig
Arnost Lustig, his son (film director) and grandson in 2009, undertook a tour of the recapitulation where the writer forced as a teenager lived. Gradually, visited Terezin, Auschwitz, and in former concentration camps in N ěmecku. Lustig tells the son and grandson of his experiences, his view of history is marked by the knowledge that the worst and most cruel things that are beyond human understanding, just can not tell. "I hate to go back to those memories," says Lustig, and admits that he deliberately chooses the better, as far worse paintings remain in it.
Lustigová memories complement authentic photographs, documentary footage of Czech Television and N árodního Film Archive. The filmmakers also used excerpts from films shot by Lustigovych originals, Mouthful (1960), Transport from Paradise (1962) and Diamonds of the Night (1964).
Czech TV

6:30 pm
Film
Prayer for Katerina Horwitz / Czechoslovakia, 1965
Directed by: Antonín Moskalyk
Theme: Arnošt Lustig
It says 1943. The group of Jewish businessmen, who had hastily returned after emigrating to Europe přibyde poor girl Catherine. All are captured by the Nazis, but their wealth gives them hope for redemption. However, the increasing requirements of the Germans and the prisoners are beginning to realize that is a cruel game played with them. Catherine, purchased by a group dance to stave off death, which is inevitably approaching.
The TV movie won the international critics at the festival Prix Italia and the main prize at the festival in Monte Carlo.
Czechoslovak TV


Thursday 29. December

5 pm
Documentary Film
Lustig is Live / ČR, 2011
Directed by: Martin Pátek
The twelfth annual International Festival of Czech, German-Jewish Culture Nine Gates, whose main part took place in June 2011 in Prague, was dedicated to his deceased president Arnost Lustig. On that occasion to Prague ran her extended family Lustig, emigration scattered around the world. Memories of my grandfather in the administration of grandchildren, of course - unlike the memories of his sister, Hana, who also lived through the Holocaust - completely different. Young, free from direct experience of his grandparents, from my perspective of today mainly intend questioning the Holocaust. With Ernest alone to meet vicariously, through the archives of previous festivals, where he performed among other things, its popular Israeli musician Shlomo Bar.
Czech TV

6:30 pm
Film
Dita Saxová / Czechoslovakia, 1967
Directed by: Antonín Moskalyk
Theme: Arnošt Lustig
"Life is not what we want, but what we have." D.S. . Spring is the 1947th The heroine of the film, Dita eighteen (Krystyna Mikolajewska) survived the concentration camps and live with similarly affected by the women at the orphanage set up by the Prague Jewish Community. The new beginnings but is itself none of their relatives and loved ones survived. Dita, secretive and almost anxiously timid, in post-war society barely focused. The Third Republic again sprouting ruthlessness and unjust gain. Dita but not a fighter, is a thoughtful, wounded and hungry creature who seeks love and understanding. The film's predecessor as Czech Sophie's Choice and was awarded a Silver Shell at San Sebastian in 1967.
FSB / Bonton Film

Exhibition at the cinema Evald
Pocta dětským obětem holocaustu
The exhibition deals with the pre-war Jewish students at the school, which today's students and pupils attending. There is a joint exhibition with the aim of local, national and international presentation of student work that represent the authors themselves and the original memorial plaque at the school.


Bookstore, cafe and gallery Gregor Samsa - Vodičkova 30, Prague 1

Friday 30. December

6:30 pm
Concert
Band Menorah
Menorah Group focuses on the beautiful spiritual and folk music of the Jewish people in the diaspora, music ašskenážskych or Sephardic Jews in the language of Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino. In his repertoire also incorporates modern Israeli song creation, in an effort to bring listeners not only the past, but now lives in Israel. Another area which complements the Menorah concerts, the song's own work with a Jewish theme.
One of the leaders of the group is Susan Wirthová, guitar accompaniment, singing and spoken word Gušlbauer Joseph.

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Summer


Theatre performance



13 June
The National Theatre
– theatre Stavovské divadlo
7 pm

The Nine Gates GRAND PRIX awards 2011
– The Crystal Menorah
In following categories:
Contribution to Jewish culture
Feature film
Documentary film


To be or not to be
Author: Ernst Lubitsch
Adaptation: Nick Whitby
Director: Daniel Špinar
Stage set: Henrich Boráros
Dramatic adviser: Lenka Kolihová Havlíková
Actors: Miroslav Donutil, Miluše Šplechtová, Jan Dolanský, Václav Postránecký, David Matásek, Kateřina Burianová, Vladislav Beneš, Hana Igonda Ševčíková, Rudolf Stärz, Josef Bánovec / Jakub Cibula, Filip Rajmont, Alexej Pyško


14 June
The foyer of Divadlo pod Palmovkou
6 pm
OPENING OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
featuring Arnošt Lustig as the festival president during the last eleven years


theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm
Mephisto
Author: Klaus Mann, Ariane Mnouchkine
Dramatic adviser: Ladislav Stýblo
Director: Emil Horváth
Actors: Jiří Langmajer, Klára Issová, Ondřej Kavan, Eva Kodešová, Rudolf Jelínek, Miloš Kopečný, Sandra Nováková, Zuzana Slavíková, Kateřina Macháčková, Radek Valenta, Marcela Nohýnková, René Přibil nebo Simona Vrbická. Production: Theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou



15 June
theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm
Good evening, Mr Lustig
Author and director: Pavel Chalupa
A commemorative evening of Arnošt Lustig
with the participation of his friends and
The Jan Matoušek Swing Band
Production: Nine Gates Festival


16 June
theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm Gympl
Author: Isaac Basdevis Singer
Dramatic adviser: Zdeněk Palusga and Karel Brožek
Director: Karel Brožek
Production: Free Prague Theatre Association


17 June
theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm SHOAH
From real life stories of Miloš Dobrý and Hana Pravdová and the adaptation from Short Stories and Long Lifes
Compiled by Tomáš Hrbek, Lucie Kolouchová and Daniel Hrbek
Director: Daniel Hrbek
Actors: Miroslav Hruška, Zuzana Onufráková
From Švandovo divadlo


18 June
theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm
Why We Laugh
Authors: Kira Obolensky, Dr. Felix Porges, Vítězslav "Pidla" Horpatzky, Pavel Weisskopf, Pavel Stránský
Dramaturg: Lisa Peschel
Director: Hayley Finn
Production: Step in Time Theatre, Minneapolis, USA


19 June
The synagogue in Libeň
9 pm
Gympl
Author: Isaac Basdevis Singer
Dramatic adviser: S. Bellow
Director: Howard Rypp
Production: Nephesh Theatre, Tel Aviv, Izrael


20 June
theatre Divadlo pod Palmovkou
7 pm
Hana's Suitcase
Author: Karen Levine
Script writer: Emil Sher
Drama adviser: Beatriz Hall
Director: Howard Rypp
Production: Nepshesh Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel



Film projection


22 June
The French Culture Institute
7 pm
ESTHER
France, Austria, Israel, 1985, 97 min.
Director: Amos Gitai
Actors: Simona Benyamini, Mohamed Bakri, Juliano Merr, Zare Vartanian


23 June
The French Culture Institute
7 pm
DISENGAGEMENT
France, Israel, 2008, 115 min.
Director: Amos Gitai
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeane Moreau



Concert


24 June
The Wallenstein Garden
6 pm
SHLOMO BAR – Habreira Hativit
Israel

25 June
The Wallenstein Garden
6 pm
KLEC (CR)
YOM (FR)
PRESSBUGER KLEZMER BAND (SL)

26 June
Wallenstein Garden
4 pm
GLIK (FR)
SOUTH BOHEMIAN PHILHARMONICS (CR)
LUKÁŠ KOVAŘÍK - conductor
JOSE LUIS MARTINEZ – guitar (SP) and ŠTĚPÁN RAK – guitar (CR)
The concert is co-organized with the Foundation of the Chamartin Symphony Orchestra.