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"Regina is Mr Weisz’s first foray into producing.
He says he wanted to make the film — which is directed by highly rated young Hungarian film-maker, Diana Groo — to promote awareness of Rabbi Jonas’s work.
She is regarded as an icon by Liberal Jews but is less well known among the wider Jewish community."
A surreal reality from Hitler’s Berlin
" We strongly suspect that by mixing different styles of directing,
Diana Groó has created a new genre of documentary.
As the poster itself says, she reconstructed the story of Regina –
Regina Jonas,the world’s first female rabbi – from a single photograph."
" The French refer to film as le 7eme art,the seventh art form. Diana Groo’s film,
in equal measure a documentary and a collage of moving pictures of early 20th-century Berlin, illustrates that concept. "It is a story that deserves to be known and told in Jewish homes, in rabbinicalseminaries, in conferences on feminism "
Lights! Camera! The Jewish experience on film!
This month's New York Jewish Film Festival covers subjects as diverse as Amy Winehouse and the first-ever female rabbi.
Ordiniert in Berlin- ermordet in Auschwitz
Der Dokumentarfilm "Regina" erinnert an die erste Rabbinerin der Welt
Von Wolfgang Martin Hamdorf
" Szerény és alázatos film Groó Dianáé.
Ugyanakkor a legjobb értelemben nagyravágyó: megidéz egy elfeledett, alig ismert személyt, egy agyonelemzett, de audiovizuális valójában, érzéki hátterével még feltáratlan kort, illetve a hivatástudatot,
amely talán már avíttnak tűnik, mégsem lehetne aktuálisabb.
Őszinte és hiteles vallomás minden kockája – a technikai manipuláció mélyén is halljuk elődeink lélegzetvételét, amely ugyan megakad a megrázó pillanatoknál, de szaggatottsága és néhol szinte észlelhetetlen elhalkulása ellenére, amíg figyelünk rá, sosem szűnhet meg"
"Passionately directed and beautifully narrated, this poetic black and white film about the world’s first female rabbi is wholly inspiring but in terms of cinematography,it lacks a certain spark."
Honoring unjustly forgotten foremothers
Thanks to the 23rd annual New York Jewish Film Festival (January 8-23, 2014), and to the work of two filmmakers: Michal Aviad and Diana Groo, the women I have long been waiting to see are now on the screen.
New York Jewish Film Festival 2014 - Critic's Choices
" What this director has built in picture and sound is a raw, deliberately primitive newsreel that’s powerfully immersive. There’s a bit of slo-mo and a few touches of what look like skip-frame tweaking from time to time, but make no mistake—Regina is the real deal."
REGINA | A DOCUMENTARY BY DIANA GROÓ | THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S FIRST FEMALE RABBI |RACHEL WEISZ AS REGINA JONAS VOICE| MALCAH PRODUCTIONS LTD- KATAPULTFILM - TIME PRINTS PRODUCTION 2013 |
WWW.REGINAJONASMOVIE.COM
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