CHANUSHKA
Israel, 2006, 65Min., Video, Hebrew and Polish, English Subtitles
 
A unique story, told here for the first time. Hanna delberger,
a 12 year old girl who fled the ghetto, roams the streets of
Warsaw looking for something to eat. Out of nowhere, a light is shining; Hanna barely makes it to a doorstep before collapsing. Hanna will eventually tell the Mother Superior she is a Polish Catholic, 15 years old, from the City of Lodge. No longer Hanna. "Hanna Mandelberger is dead! I became Anna Litvinska, through and through." So begins Hanna''s fantastic, almost impossible story, when against all odds she decides to live in spite of it all. Thus, she erases her childhood
memories, and fully identifies with her new role of Catholic
nun. Karl Wojtyla placed the Prosphora on her tongue ring
communion. Forty years later, Hanna Avrutzky travels to the
Vatican to meet an old friend: Karol Wojtyla, who, in the meantime, has become Pope John Paul II.
 
Director: Nurit Kedar
Producer: Nurit Kedar
Cinematography: Ron Katzanelson
Editor: Yuval Orr
Trailer: http://www.docmovies.com/docaviv30.html
Cinematheque 1, 07/04/2006, 14:00