First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel

First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel
by Robert Gardner, David Grossbach

First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel
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Actor: Elie Wiesel, William Hurt
Director: David Grossbach, Robert Gardner
Cinematographer: Nick Gardner
Composer: Leonard Lionnet
Editor: David Grossbach
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs (Direct)

Movie Reviews of First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel

Movie Review: The Survivor
Summary: 5 Stars

This is an excellent portrait of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. It includes archival photographs, a narrative of portions of Wiesel's writings (read by actor William Hurt) and an interview with Wiesel himself.

We see Wiesel talking w/ one of his classes at Boston University, and hear him speak of the events in his extraordinary life. He talks of the horrors of Auschwitz, and of what happened to him when the war ended. He also comments on the abuse of religion to justify acts of terrorism on 9/11, and speaks out against racial and ethnic hatred, regardless of the source.

Two remarkable stories, which I will quote as best as memory will allow: "When the American soldiers came and liberated the camp, they first cried when they saw what was happening there. Then they started cursing, really cursing at all humanity, and their curses were like prayers."

"In 1995, I went back to Sighet, the city where my family lived when the war began. I saw the train station, and I went back to the house where we lived. It was late at night when I went through the gate. It had the same squeak I remembered as a child. The night before we knew we were going to be taken away, we each buried something. I buried the gold watch my grandfather had given me for my Bar Mitzvah. I remembered how I had buried it under a certain tree. I dug with my hands and found it there. It was dirty, and I brushed off the dirt. Then, I do not know why, but I put it back, and covered it again. It is still there."

Summary of First Person Singular - Elie Wiesel

This thoughtful PBS special examines the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, perhaps best known for his compelling memoir, Night, in which he describes his survival in the Auschwitz concentration camp of Nazi Germany. While an hour cannot do justice to an entire life--to say nothing of a life as tumultuous as Wiesel's--interviews with Wiesel and readings from his works trace the path from his terrifying childhood to his days as a journalist in Paris, the establishment of Israel, and his later years in America, including his troubled thoughts on the current conflict between Israel and Palestine and the September 11 assaults on the World Trade Center. Weisel describes the central concern of his work as memory--ensuring that the horrors of the past are not forgotten, but honored and held up as a warning to the future. Narrated by William Hurt. --Bret Fetzer

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