
Film Info
Zorro’s Bar Mitzva
Film Information
Exhibition Title | Zorro’s Bar Mitzva |
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Original Title | Zorros Bar Mizwa |
English Title | Zorro’s Bar Mitzva |
Director | Ruth Beckermann |
Country | ![]() |
Year | 2006 |
Format | 35 mm |
Colour | Color |
Duration | 90' |
Production:
- Dirección / Director: Ruth Beckermann
- Guión / Scriptwriter: Ruth Beckermann
- Fotografía / Cinematography: Nurith Aviv, Leena Koppe, André Wanne
- Edición / Editing: Dieter Pichler, Thomas Woschitz
- Producción / Producer: Ruth Beckermann
- Compañía Productora / Production Company: Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
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Synopsis
Ruth Beckermann is Viennese and so are the Jewish families in this documentary, but some of these images could have been shot in the porteño neighborhood of Villa Crespo. The traditions of the Hebrew religion repeat themselves, as well as the pomp saved for the great family events, whose representations tend to induce involuntary laughs. The filmmaker focuses on four well-to-do Viennese families, a detail that aggravates the artsy streak of the celebrations. Three teenage boys celebrate their bar mitzvah –and one girl, it’s female version, the bat mitzvah– with relatives and schoolmates, and they do it in a big way: in Israel. The invitations aren’t cards but videos that have them as actors, and the bar mitzvah planner showcases the new trend: theme festivity, which will allow one of the sentenced to play Zorro himself. The documentary becomes a comedy and provokes laughter through recognition, between peplum scenes and videos with “page-turn” effect.
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