Hollywood and the Holocaust Film Series: "Enemies: A Love Story"
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Jewish Community Campus
5801 West 115th Street
Overland Park, Kansas
The sixth and final film in MCHE's Hollywood and the Holocaust film series, Enemies: A Love Story (1989) will be shown in the White Theatre on the Jewish Community Campus. Collectively, the films in this series illustrate how depiction of the Holocaust in American cinema has changed over five decades as the country’s own relationship with this history has evolved.
In 1949 New York, a Polish Jew (Ron Silver), who was hidden during the war and who now works as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi (Alan King), finds himself involved with three women: his current wife, a Polish non-Jew who hid him during the war; another survivor (Lena Olin), who is married; and his first wife from Poland (Anjelica Huston), who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust along with their two children but who suddenly reappears. Based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film focuses on the survivors, who question religion and a God who could let the Holocaust occur. (119 minutes)
For more information, click here. To purchase tickets and learn about sponsorship opportunities, please visit this link. Tickets are $10 per film, or $50 for a series pass.
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June 11
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