Miss Holocaust Survivor

by Radek Wegrzyn
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih
  • 2023 Farbfilm Verleih

    Synopsis

    “Stand up straight, smile at people and show them we’re still alive.”
    Fourteen women between the age of 75 and 95 walk a runway and tell their life stories to their audience in Haifa, Israel. They’re wearing their nicest clothes; jewellery and make-up grace their aged faces and fragile bodies. This is the most unique beauty pageant in the world, because these women all have one thing in common: they represent the last generation of Holocaust survivors.
    The creative documentary MISS HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR brings the lives of Rita and Tova to the silver screen, telling stories of unique women who survived the Holocaust, and of the beauty and strength radiating within them.

    Festivals

    2023
    NIHRFF – Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
    40 Kassel Dokfest
    45 FF Max Ophüls Preis
    2024
    5 LETsDOK

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Radek Wegrzyn

    Producer

    Radek Wegrzyn

    Score

    Franziska Pohlmann

    Sound

    Leonard Aderhold

    Editor

    Maya Steinberg, Radek Wegrzyn

    DoP

    Matthias Bolliger, Ciril Tscheligi