“Stella. A Life.” + Q&A at National Center for Jewish Film's Annual Film Festival 2024

NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE

Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Laura Jockusch, whose current project is a book about Stella Goldschlag, this drama’s subject

Introduction by Karin Oehlenschlaeger, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston

Stella, played by the magnetic Paula Beer (Never Look Away, Transit, Frantz), is a vivacious, talented young woman in Nazi Berlin working as a Jazz singer despite the repressive climate and the risk of passing as a non-Jew. When tides turn and she is forced into hiding with her parents, Stella begins working with a passport forger. Exposed and captured by the Gestapo, she faces the most dire and deadly of choices: face deportation to Auschwitz for herself and her parents or become an informant for the Gestapo identifying Jews hiding in Berlin. This provocative drama is based on the true story of Stella Goldschlag who, from September 1943 until the end of the war, delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo, and was put on trial after the war. (Directed by Kilian Riedhof. Germany/Austria, 2024, German with English subtitles)

Nominated for four 2024 German Film Awards.

“Paula Beer turns in another dynamite performance…. Stella. A Life. is an effective exploration of the horrors of war and the devastating emotional and physical effects on the victims in their desperate will to survive.” – Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia

Screening at The National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival
May 12 – 21, 2024
www.jewishfilm.org

Co-Presented with the Goethe-Institut Boston Series New Films from Germany