J-Films: Legend of Destruction
Exclusive U.S.
screening of the original Israeli version!
Thursday,
August 8,
7:00PM
Comments and a
Q&A after the film with Dr. Seth
Schwartz, the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish
Civilization at Columbia University
Jerusalem in 66CE is a powder keg about to explode.
Factions of Zealots escalate social divisions into civil war while
the Roman army gathers outside the city’s walls, ready to
annihilate everything and everyone in its path. This widely seen
and widely discussed 2021 Israeli film, just now beginning to
screen in the U.S., recreates a foundational moment in Jewish
History using 1,500 original paintings by David Polonsky and
Michael Faust, the artists behind the Oscar-nominated Waltz with Bashir,
and a voice cast of iconic Israeli movie stars (including Shuli
Rand, Ze’ev Revach, Moni Moshonov, and Yael Abecassis). Legend of Destruction
looks 2,000 years into the past and finds timely warnings for the
future of Israel and the Jewish people.
Doors open at 6:30pm
93 minutes – Hebrew with English subtitles
This film includes strobe lighting effects and historically
accurate violence. Viewer discretion is advised for those sensitive
to either.
All tickets $15 – advance registration encouraged
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