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A documntary film. Laila Salama, aka Silvia Céspedes, is a mystery. Was she a daughter of an MI6 spy, a Miss Teen Beauty, Rommel's lover, Wiesenthal's informant? Did she take part in the operation to capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina?. But above all... Did she really exist? This film tries to assemble the puzzle pieces, uncovering a secret which has remained hidden for years. The film was screened at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2021.

Director : Gabriel Lichtmann

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 72

Language : Spanish

Red Trees

A documentary by Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father's family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award (R) nominee Cesar Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer's father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Piggot Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a...

Director : Marina Willer

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 80

Language : English, Portuguese