Les Témoins de Lendsdorf

Titre original : The Testament

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Yoel, historien soucieux des détails, mène un débat important contre des négationnistes de l'Holocauste et découvre que sa mère a une fausse identité. Un film policier à propos d'un homme qu... Tout lireYoel, historien soucieux des détails, mène un débat important contre des négationnistes de l'Holocauste et découvre que sa mère a une fausse identité. Un film policier à propos d'un homme qui est prêt à tout risquer pour découvrir la vérité.Yoel, historien soucieux des détails, mène un débat important contre des négationnistes de l'Holocauste et découvre que sa mère a une fausse identité. Un film policier à propos d'un homme qui est prêt à tout risquer pour découvrir la vérité.

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- 5 victoires et 6 nominations au total

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Ori Pfeffer

Yoel

Rivka Gur

Fania

Hagit Dasberg

Rina
(as Hagit Dasberg Shamul)

Orna Rotenberg

Miriam
(as Orna Rothberg)

Ori Yaniv

Miki

Daniel Adari

Yonatan

Shmulik Atzmon

Yehoshua

Iréna Flury

Sylvie

Izhak Heskia

Rabbi

Leah Koenig

Miriam Gavrieli

Shoshana
(as Miriam Gabrieli)

Emanuel Cohn

Archivist

Michaela Rosen

Austrian politician

Michael Fuith

Austrian mayor

Irit Barak

Mali

Helmuth Häusler

Bodyguard

Réalisation
- Amichai Greenberg
Scénario
- Amichai Greenberg
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While the story itself is fiction, it was inspired by events that occurred at the end of Word War II in Rechnitz, Austria. On the night of 24-25 March 1945, some 200 Hungarian Jews were murdered near Rechnitz, by a group of local notables who had gathered for a party at the castle of the Countess of Batthyany, born Margit Thyssen-Bornemisza. The party and the killing were organized by Hans Joachim Oldenberg, her lover. At some point during the evening guns were handed out. The 200 Jewish laborers, residents of the manor, were hunted down and killed. Afterwards the guests returned to the castle to continue the party. After the war the massacre was covered up. Residents boycotted an official investigation; one witness was murdered, and other witnesses died under suspicious circumstances.

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Yoel Halberstam is an Israeli Holocaust researcher, a former 'haredi' (super-religious) Jew who has left the yehiva but still maintains an Orthodox lifestyle. He is the divorced father of a 12-year-old boy studying for his Bar-Mitzvah. Living a very frugal life, he is trying to uncover the details of a massacre that occurred in 1945 in Lensdorf, Austria, in which 200 Jews were massacred, and which has been covered up by everyone involved.

Lensdorf is a fictional village, based on Rechnitz, Austria, which did conduct a massacre, whose details are even more horrible than the one in the film.

Halberstam is fighting an Austrian attempt to literally cover up the killing ground. In the course of his investigations, he uncovers information that could badly affect him, his family, and his lifestyle. Will he push on?

Quiet and low-key, The Testament is riveting and very believable. The star, Ori Pfeffer, is on camera in nearly every scene, and you can't take your eyes off him. He has perfectly mastered the body language and facial expressions of the 'hardal' (nearly haredi) male.

The most chilling line is given by one of the survivors: "The war is still going on". When you see The Testament, you'll understand why.