Schedule:

Wednesday 15 February
Imre Gyongyossy and Barna Kabay, The Revolt of Job (1983) (Hungary)
An elderly childless Jewish couple in wartime Hungary adopt a Christian boy from an orphanage, in order to safeguard their inheritance. The film gives a unique insight into rural Jewish life in Hungary on the eve of the Holocaust.

Wednesday 22 February
Elem Klimov, Come and See (1985) (Russia)
Following the Nazi invasion of Belorussia, a young boy joins the partisans and witnesses the full horror of the German occupation. The Soviet Union was always disinclined to separate out the Jewish Holocaust from the catastrophe which befell all its citizens.

Wednesday 29 February
Andrzej Wajda, Korczak (1990) (Poland)
The respected Polish doctor and educationalist Janusz Korczak (whose real name was Henryk Goldszmit) established an orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw which he ran on democratic lines, giving a voice and power to the children themselves. After the Nazi invasion and creation of the Ghetto, he fought as long as he could to protect his children from what was going on outside the walls of the orphanage.