Rabbi Wolff

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Movie
Original title Rabbi Wolff
Country of production Germany
original language German , (with subtitles :) English , Biblical Hebrew , New Hebrew , Dutch , Russian
Publishing year 2016
length 94: 54/91: 06 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Britta Wauer
script Britta Wauer
production Britta Wauer
music Karim Sebastian Elias
camera Kaspar Koepke
cut Berthold Baule

Rabbi Wolff is a German documentary film by Britta Wauer from 2016. The film celebrated its world premiere on April 14, 2016 at the festival Achtung Berlin in the Filmtheater am Friedrichshain and was the opening film of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Festival on May 3, 2016 in Schwerin .

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The film shows the turbulent everyday life of Rabbi William Wolff , who commutes between London and his congregations in Schwerin and Rostock on his religious mission. In addition to his varied life while traveling, director Britta Wauer illuminates the eventful past of the Jewish man.

Wolff was born in Berlin in 1927 and fled with his parents and siblings in 1933 from the National Socialists to Amsterdam and from there six years later to London . His wish to become a rabbi was initially unfulfilled, as the family did not have enough money to finance a rabbinical seminary for him after the escape . After finishing school, Wolff decided to pursue a career as a journalist and followed political world events as a parliamentary reporter for three decades. But he never forgot his old dream of becoming a rabbi. He began training at the age of 53 and was ordained a rabbi in 1984 . In 2002, at the age of 75, he took over the office of State Rabbi of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Since then he has looked after the three Jewish communities in Schwerin, Rostock and Wismar . The year-long film documentation also shows Wolff's reflections on and after giving up his office.

William Wolff (2009 in Stralsund )

background

Director Britta Wauer met Rabbi William Wolff for the first time in 2008 while looking for a narrator for her documentary In Heaven, Underground . Wolff was supposed to convey the differences between Christian and Jewish mourning rituals and the ideas of the afterlife in Judaism . His participation in the film turned out to be a "stroke of luck". His age-wise, charming and witty manner quickly reached the hearts of the audience. Because of this positive response, Wauer decided to dedicate a film to William Wolff.

Awards

literature

  • William Wolff: Rabbi Wolff and the things in life. Memories and insights. Compiled by Britta Wauer. With a preface by William Wolff. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95565-154-1 (autobiographical; “What of the 100 hours of discussion material cannot be seen in the film, she [ sc. Britta Wauer] has published in a book.“ It would be otherwise it's a shame about these stories and all that Willy Wolff has to tell. '").

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At 24fps / 25fps. FSK search result for "Rabbi Wolf".
  2. ↑ a b Home - Rabbi Wolff Film. In: rabbiwolff.com. Retrieved March 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Documentary “Rabbi Wolff” opens 26th FILMKUNSTFEST MV and receives “WIR diversity award”. (No longer available online.) In: filmland-mv.de. FilmLand MV , archived from the original on March 18, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Britta Wauer. In: Official flyer for the film: “Rabbi Wolff. A gentleman before the gentleman ” .
  5. ^ A b Johanna Friese: Life as an opportunity. In: the church . 22nd year, No. 19, May 8, 2016, p. 13, column 5 (film review).