The Jewish Cardinal

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Call Number: DVD FLC-FRE Jewish
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Jewish	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Jewish	1-week checkout	Due 04-25-2024

Originally released as a motion picture in 2012.
Bonus short film: Kosher / director, Isabelle Stead.
Laurent Lucas, Aurélien Recoing, Pascal Greggory, Audrey Dana, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Henri Guybet, Nathalie Richard, Bruno Todeschini,
The amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his Jewish identity even after converting to Catholicism, and joining the priesthood. Quickly rising up the Church ranks, Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew. When nuns set to build a convent within the cursed walls of Auschwitz, Lustiger finds himself a mediator, and may be forced at last to choose his side.
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 screen ratio; 5.1 surround or stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Riveting and relevant submitted by tcramer318 on August 2, 2023, 5:53am This film starts out as a lighter story about a priest who's beloved by his parishioners as he's moving up the ranks and getting to hang out with the new Polish pope. The conflicts escalate in tandem, both his internal conflict as he grapples with his Jewish identity as the child of the Holocaust and the external conflict about how we remember the atrocities at Auschwitz. Watching this was the first time I'd heard of the convent at Auschwitz; this film felt relevant for today as there are people downplaying how the Jewish people were specifically targeted for extermination in that time. I would recommend this movie for anyone who had just watched Ida.