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e King and the Jester:
a Soul Song to the Lodz Ghetto
DIRECTED By: Elad Dan and yosi
Godard
SCREENPLAy: yosi Godard
FILMING CREW: Dany Barnea, yehuda
Kaveh, Daphna Kaplansky, yaakov
yanai
NARRATOR: Dror Keren
MUSIC: Avi Binjamin
ANIMATION AND DESIGN: Elad Dan
COSTUMES: Nurit Gordon
PRODUCTION: Israeli Television ch.1,
Israel Broadcasting Authority
LENGTH: 50 min
LANGUAGE: Hebrew
PRODUCTION DATE: 1999
CAST: Izrael Sasza Demidow (Jankiel
Herszkowicz), Leonid Kaniewski
(Chaim Rumkowski), Assi Rusak,
Shmuel Etinger
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED: Mendel
Grossman's photographs from the
archives of yad Vashem Institute, A television musical collage. Colourized archival photographs
by Mendel Grossman are accompanied by Jankiel Herszkow-
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto,
Jankiel Herszkowicz's songs, icz's songs, which illustrate the state of mind of the ghetto in-
photographs from the archives habitants. The King is Chaim Rumkowski, who – according to
of the Lohamei Hagetaot Kibbutz, the film-makers – lived in a mysterious symbiosis with Her-
Municipal Museum of Frankfurt, szkowicz, a street singer, the Jester. The musical sequences
Chronos Archive, Israel Film Archive
intertwine with the speeches of Rumkowski and fragments of
– Jerusalem Cinematheque, IBA Film
Archive. the Chronicle of the Lodz ghetto.
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