“The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki”
Dir. Dror Zahavi
Biopic, Germany 2009, 90 minutes

In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport him to Poland. After the German invasion of Poland, Marcel tries to survive in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942 his parents and brother are deported and murdered in Treblinka, but Marcel and his wife Tosia are able to hide with a friendly Polish couple until in 1944 the Russian army liberates them. A civil servant in postwar communist Poland, Marcel falls into disgrace in 1949. In 1958 he flees to Germany, where in Frankfurt he will become a distinguished literary critic for the famous “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.

Partner: Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

In German with Polish subtitles.
Free admission.