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A film by Sandy Dickson & Churchill Roberts
67 minutes, documentary, color, English, 2011
DVD packaged in a certified Green Forestry eco pack
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By 14 he had written five novels and penned a diary about the Nazi occupation of Prague. By 16 he had produced 170 drawings and paintings, edited an underground magazine in the Jewish ghetto, written numerous short stories and had walked to the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Slight and stoop-shouldered, filled with intellectual curiosity but prone to mischief, Petr Ginz read voraciously, wrote constantly, developed cryptographs to record BBC broadcasts, built exploding toy cannons to frighten his classmates, and drew and painted a world full of adventure and exotic locations. In his novel, an allegory about Hitler, Petr wrote and illustrated the story of a giant robotic creature that is used by the government to terrorize the people. He ends the book with the warning: "Is it not possible that a new monster may appear on the surface of this earth, worse than this one-a monster that...will torture mankind in a terrible manner."
Through Petr's artwork, novels, short stories and magazine articles, interwoven with fantastical animation, this unconventional documentary portrait reveals his journey from precocious child to young adult, from innocence to the painful awareness of inhumanity, from gifted artist and writer to prodigy. Although Petr's life ended at Auschwitz, it is not a story of tragedy but celebration-a testament to how a boy’s wonder and creative expression represent the best of what makes us human.
WINNER! Jerusalem International Film Festival
CLOSING NIGHT FILM, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION, Toronto Jewish Film Festival
"This astonishing documentary resurrects the life and work of an Auschwitz victim whose imagination knew few bounds...exhilarating and moving." -Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
"Deeply affecting. Highlights the best qualities of what it means to be human."
- Sound on Sight
● Bonus Shorts: Boy Animated, Inside the Artist's World & A World Imagined: The Music of The Last Flight of Petr Ginz
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