Screenings

29/09
  • Festival 42
  • Director: Tomer Heymann
  • Israel, Germany 2026
  • 75 minutes
  • Hebrew, German, Yiddish, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Shimon Rothschild knows exactly where everyone should stand on set: the cinematographer, the set design, the actors playing the members of his family who perished in the Holocaust. On the eve of his 100th birthday, Shimon recreates his life story together with director Tomer Heymann: the chain of coincidences that saved him from the gas chambers of Auschwitz, the brutal medical experiments he endured at Sachsenhausen, the death march, and his life after the war. In a specially constructed studio, and with actors portraying figures from his past, Shimon moves through the space, giving instructions with unwavering determination and a unique sense of humor, while exploring the boundaries between memory and reconstruction.


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  • Director Tomer Heymann
  • Production Leigh Heiman, Tomer Heymann, Nancy Spielberg
  • Script Tomer Heymann
  • Co-Producer Veronika Mendler
  • Executive Producer Lati Grobman, Kirstin Benthaus-Gebauer, Sandra Maischberger, Steven and Franki Cohen, Alina Slonim
  • Deputy director Nadan Pines
  • Research Tali Shamir-Wertzberger, Nadan Pines
  • Studio DOP Daniel Miller
  • Documentary DOP Avner Shahaf
  • Editing Daniel Reeb
  • Second Camera Operator Roi Kayzerman
  • Sound Design Yossi Appelbaum
  • Music Alberto Shwartz
  • Actors Gabriel Faber, Andreas Merk, Dan Madpis, Harel Grinfeld, Aliza Barashi, Omer Berkovich, Yoav Dagan, Valeria Laichtman
  • Casting Ana Fainstein
  • Source Kan 11, Heymann Brothers Films, Playmount Productions, Vincent Productions
  • Produced with support by KAN 11, The New Fund for Cinema and TV, BR/ARTE, Fiverr, The Claims Conference, The Eric and Sheila Samson Foundation, Jewish Story Partners, The Stella & Dolphi Goren Foundation

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