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Biography Joseph Rochlitz
Born in New York, studied Film and Music at Tel Aviv University, graduated from the American University of Rome.
Alternates
documentary filmmaking with opera direction, productions including Marie Galante (K. Weill) at the Rome Opera, Il
Giuramento
(S. Mercadante) at the Wexford Festival, Thérèse
Raquin (A. Harlap) at the Israel Festival and Aida (G. Verdi).
Has
also worked as assistant director in opera and films, including with Claude d’Anna
(Macbeth, 1987), Jim Jarmusch (Night
on Earth, 1991) and Ridley Scott, for whom he staged the opera scene in Hannibal
(2001).
Filmography (writer/director)
The
Righteous Enemy (1987)
– an 84 min. documentary about the refusal of Italian soldiers and diplomats
to collaborate in the Final Solution in Axis-occupied Croatia, France and Greece.
Broadcast by PBS and Discovery (USA), Israel TV, SBS (Australia) and RTE (Ireland).
Re-edited 1994, 57min.
San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival 1988
United
States Holocaust Museum, 2000
Vienna
Jewish Film Week 2004
True
Child of Vienna
(2000) – the 52 min. chronicle of a return visit to Vienna by the filmmaker’s
father and uncle,
62 years after they fled the Anschluss.
Vienna
Jewish Film Week 2004
Co-director
with Benny Brunner:
Kosher
Friendly
(30’
- NIKMedia/Netherlands
I, 2001) – The rebirth of the Jewish community of Wroclaw, Poland.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2002
Warsaw
Jewish Film Festival 2003
It
Is No Dream
(52’ - IKON/Netherlands I, 2002) – Some rarely
heard Israeli voices speak out against their governments’ occupation policies.
San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2003
Toronto
Jewish Film Festival 2004
Vienna
Jewish Film Week 2004
Co-writer
with Benny Brunner:
Al
Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948
(59’ – Arte, 1997) - The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 1998
Vienna Jewish Film Week 2004
The
Children of Abraham and Sophie
(90’
- HOS, Netherlands, 2002). A film about
four generations of the extended Braun/Bar-On family, which in the course of the
20th century came to include Christians, Jews, Muslims, Holocaust victims and
Nazis.
Toronto
Jewish Film Festival 2004
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