1938

Dorobantu Film & Television (Gabriel Daniel Dorobantu)

Suède / 2025 / Fiction, Expérimental / 38’0”I2605444

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SYNOPSIS

[EN] On a rainy day of year 1983, a man is reading a book about another man of Jewish descendent – who, back in 1938, after secretly undergoing an intimate medical surgery, also receives, with the help of a dear woman being close to him and nursing him post-surgically, a forged Third Reich identity card according to which he is an "Aryan”. The new identity allows him to remove the Star of David from his clothes. Although marked “Jude” ("Jew") and imposed by the Nazi regime as an instrument of discrimination, he cannot destroy it – as he initially intended – since it also represents a symbol of his religion. So, he hides it behind the portrait photo of the woman who is helping him – perhaps also as historical evidence of the Nazi oppression, for the posterity. In 1983, the book reader symbolically identifies with the Jewish man – and he sees the Star of David translucently becoming more and more visible at the surface of the female portrait photo, as a shining jewelry on a necklace, graciously hanging on the chest of the woman who has helped him survive the Nazi times.

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