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(Oren Rudavsky, 2024, 87min)
A Film by Oren Rudavsky
USA - 2024 - 1hr 27m - English
“Soul On Fire is an important and timely documentary…Director Oren Rudavsky has done a masterful job” - Culturecatch.com
“a terrific, wonderfully crafted documentary…in a time when Holocaust denial and antisemitism is at an all-time high, “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,” is a much-needed reminder and inspiration for all of us. This is a true profile in courage.” - Atlanta Jewish Times
“Searing and urgent…poignant and timely… Rudavsky eloquently includes archival footage and judiciously applies animated reenactments…they are powerful and expressionistic…that face, those eyes, that voice, and those words make this such a stunning film.” - Peter Keough, The Arts Fuse
Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and hand painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.
Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed and co-wrote the American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People which was nominated for a Critics Choice award. His film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards.
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(Oren Rudavsky, 2024, 87min)
A Film by Oren Rudavsky
USA - 2024 - 1hr 27m - English
“Soul On Fire is an important and timely documentary…Director Oren Rudavsky has done a masterful job” - Culturecatch.com
“a terrific, wonderfully crafted documentary…in a time when Holocaust denial and antisemitism is at an all-time high, “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire,” is a much-needed reminder and inspiration for all of us. This is a true profile in courage.” - Atlanta Jewish Times
“Searing and urgent…poignant and timely… Rudavsky eloquently includes archival footage and judiciously applies animated reenactments…they are powerful and expressionistic…that face, those eyes, that voice, and those words make this such a stunning film.” - Peter Keough, The Arts Fuse
Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and hand painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.
Oren Rudavsky is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Rudavsky produced, directed and co-wrote the American Masters documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People which was nominated for a Critics Choice award. His film A Life Apart: Hasidism in America was short-listed for the Academy Awards.
