Settlement

Tue 8 Apr, 7 pm. Brandeis University, Lown 2, MS053, Waltham, 02454. Sharon P. Rivo, Executive Director, 781-899-7044, rivo@brandeis.edu. National Center for Jewish Film - [events]

TUES | APRIL 8 | 7:00 PM USA | 2008 | 55 min Director/Writer: Marian Marzynski New England Premiere Special Guest: Director Marian Marzynski, Emmy & Dupont Award Winning Filmmaker & Boston Resident Moderator: Gerald Peary, Filmmaker & Critic Ten years after his landmark film Shtetl, Emmy-winning director Marian Marzynski, a pioneer of Polish cinéma-vérité, returns to the subject of the Holocaust with Settlement, the most recent of his critically-lauded autobiographical films. A startling discovery draws Marzynski back to Poland, to the shtetl house of the Kushner family. Sixty years after WWII Marzynski traces what became of the Kushner survivors. Traveling to Poland, the United States, and Israel, Marzynski visits the past—his past—but arrives at the fut