When I got the first press notice for “Protektor”, a Czech film about a Christian husband and his Jewish wife trying to survive under Nazi occupation, my first reaction was to pass it by. Although I didn’t think much about it at the time, my hesitations no doubt reflected my distaste for the typical “inspirational” melodrama like “Schindler’s List” as well as how Zionism has appropriated this narrative to its own sordid aims.
After seeing “Protektor”, I can say that you are in store for some completely groundbreaking cinema at Lincoln Plaza or Brooklyn Heights Cinema where it opened yesterday. Director/Screenwriter Marek Najbrt has not sought out heroic figures but flawed human beings instantly recognizable as the kind who would be seated alongside you in the theater or at the next desk at work. You cannot help but wondering as you watch the drama unfold how you would have behaved in similar circumstances. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/protektor/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
