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Everything is a present : the wonder and the grace of Alice Sommer Herz = Alles ist ein Geschenk /

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Christopher Nupen's film portreys Alice Sommer Herz, 106, the second oldest person in London, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers pla...

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Corporate Author: Allegro Films (London, England)
Other Authors: Nupen, Christopher (Screenwriter, Director), Herz-Sommer, Alice, 1903-2014 (Performer), Müller, Melissa, 1967-, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
German
Language Notes:In English and German with optional subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
Published: [Guildford, England] : Allegro Films, [2009]
Series:Nupen, Christopher. Christopher Nupen films.
Subjects:
Herz-Sommer, Alice, > 1903-2014.
Women pianists > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Pianists > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Jews > Czech Republic > Terezín (Severočeský kraj) > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
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Summary:Christopher Nupen's film portreys Alice Sommer Herz, 106, the second oldest person in London, a woman with the true gift of forgiveness. A Nazi concentration camp prisoner for two years with her six-year-old son, suffering deaths of her mother and her husband in the camp, she also remembers playing more than 100 concerts in the camp and likens the experience, both for the performers and for the listeners, to being close to the divine. Alice is in no doubt that music saved her sanity as well as her life and the lives of hundreds of others.
Item Description:"[Alice Sommer Herz], sage, saint, mavin and subject of the best selling book A garden of Eden in Hell published in 7 languages."-- Booklet cover.
Performer: Alice Sommer Herz. Composer: Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven.
Music played by Alice Sommer Herz: extracts from the Impromptu Number 2 Op. 142 D.935 by Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana's Czech Dances, and from the Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Booklet (15 pages : col. ill.) with program and an essay by Christopher Nupen in English inserted in container.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio: 16:9; 2.0 Dolby Digital stereo sound format.
Production Credits:Still photographs, Matthew Percival ; online editor, Paul Bates.