EXCLUSIVE: The Final Musician of Auschwitz, the BBC documentary characteristic backed by Entry Leisure, 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 top of this 12 months.
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 essentially 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 periods together with a reside discuss 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 dying camp, which was commemorated worldwide.
Director Toby Trackman mentioned: “We all know from the response we’ve obtained already that this movie can have a profound impression 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 provide these conversations as large a geographic and social footprint as potential.”
Co-EPs Emily Blavatnik and Danny Cohen added: “Preserving the recollections, 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 essential to furthering holocaust remembrance.”
BBC docs being given theatrical runs has been extra widespread of late, with current examples together with BACKLASH: The Homicide of George Floyd and From Roger Moore, With Love.
The Final Musician of Auschwitz is govt produced by Alan Clements for Two Rivers Media. Cohen and Blavatnik are EPs for Entry. It’s produced by Deborah Lee.
