EXCLUSIVE: The Last Musician of Auschwitz, the BBC documentary characteristic backed by Access Entertainment, has landed a UK theatrical launch.
Brit gross sales home Cosmic Cat has secured the rights to distribute the doc and plans to have 100 screenings by the tip of this yr.
Backed by The Zone of Curiosity funder Entry, the doc, which was made by Two Rivers Media, follows Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who, together with different victims of Auschwitz, performed and created music amid the terrors of the Holocaust. It reveals how regardless of residing in probably the most brutal and dehumanizing of conditions, prisoners had been secretly composing music while within the camps. The movie additionally examines the SS’s perverse relationship with music — forcing prisoners to carry out for his or her leisure and accompany slave laborers, turning artwork into one other type of torture.
Cosmic Cat plans to pair most of the UK cinema screenings with Q&A classes together with a reside speak with Jacqueline Luck, daughter of Auschwitz survivor Lela Black née Amiel.
The Final Musician of Auschwitz aired on the BBC in January across the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the infamous loss of life camp, which was commemorated worldwide.
Director Toby Trackman stated: “We all know from the response we have now obtained already that this movie can have a profound influence on those that see it, which I hope audiences will discover is amplified by experiencing it in cinemas. It has already created an enormous quantity of debate which we’re eager to construct on, inviting a deeper examination of the themes explored within the movie – whether or not instructional, musical or emotional. I actually hope to contain interfaith organisations and neighborhood teams, to offer these conversations as huge a geographic and social footprint as potential.”
Co-EPs Emily Blavatnik and Danny Cohen added: “Preserving the reminiscences, tales and truths of the Holocaust is critically essential. It’s one thing that the Blavatnik Household and Entry Industries are profoundly dedicated to. This documentary and its musical testimonies resonate deeply when skilled in a shared, collective setting, which is vital to furthering holocaust remembrance.”
BBC docs being given theatrical runs has been extra widespread of late, with current examples together with BACKLASH: The Murder of George Floyd and From Roger Moore, With Love.
The Final Musician of Auschwitz is government produced by Alan Clements for Two Rivers Media. Cohen and Blavatnik are EPs for Entry. It’s produced by Deborah Lee.
