Black Honey, The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever
Synopsis
As long as Abraham Sutzkever lived, he wouldn’t let a film about his life be made. Today, eight years after his passing, Black Honey tells the incredible story of the greatest Yiddish poet of modern times. The man who led the Paper Brigade underground movement that saved Jewish manuscripts from the Nazis, survived the WWII due to Stalin sending him a private rescue plane, testified in the Nuremberg Trials, and immigrated to Israel in 1947 where he led Yiddish culture, while writing in astonishing vitality.
This film is part of a special project, The Hebrews, dedicated to Jewish poets.
The project won a Special Mention Award at the Haifa International Film Festival “Between Israeli and Jewish Identity Competition Section”, 2018
Credits
Director(s)
Uri Barbash
Producer(s)
Yair Qedar
Co-Producer(s)
Itay Barkan, Hadas Kalderon
Script
Uri Barbash, Hadas Kalderon
Cinematography
Talia Tulik Galon
Editor
Ori Derdikman
Original Music
Alon Lotringer
Original Language
Hebrew, English, Yiddish
Subtitles
English, Hebrew, French, Russian, German
Sound Design
Ami Arad
Supported by
Makor Foundation, Israel Film Service, Avi Chai Foundation, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, Cultural Administration, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport, The Claims Committee, The GoodWill Foundation, Beit Shalom Aleichem
Photos Courtesy of
Yair Qedar, Itay Barkan
Festival Highlights
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Winner
Special AwardWarsaw Jewish Film Festival2019 -
Winner
Yad VaShem Chairman's Award for Artistic Achievement in Holocaust related filmJerusalem International Film Festival2018 -
Winner*
Special Mention Award at the Haifa International Film Festival "Between Israeli and Jewish Identity CompetitionHaifa International Film Festival2018 -
Winner
Audience Choice Award for Best DocumentaryLA Israeli Film Festival2018
Jewish Motifs International Film Festival, Poland, 2019
IMAJ - Israeli Film Festival, Belgium, 2019
Lund University, Sweden, 2019
Washington Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2019
Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Canada, 2019
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Germany, 2019
Filmpalette Köln, Germany, 2019
LA Israeli Film Festival, USA, 2018
Cottbus International Film Festival, Germany, 2018
Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel, 2018
Reviews
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"A unique artistically and historically valuable project, that preserves wonderfully, through documentary films, pearls of poetry and literature, which some of them, regrettably, are vanishing
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- Jury, Haifa International Film Festival, 2018
