(Movie poster). Granitza [“The Border.”]
AUCTION 70 |
Thursday, September 22nd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 12
(SOVIET UNION).
(Movie poster). Granitza [“The Border.”]
1935:
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
Film by Mikhail Dubson set in an impoverished Jewish village along the border of Soviet Russia and bourgeois Poland. The proximity to the Communist heartland being an incitement to class consciousness by the Jews.
Unknown for decades, today this film is regarded as one of the best works of Jewish cinema made under the Soviet regime.