This vibrant, often moving, no-frills documentary takes a look at Leopold Kozlowski, a robust 72-year-old who is the last descendant of generations of
klezmerim, the Jewish folk musicians of central Europe.
While most of his family was slaughtered in the Holocaust, the Ukrainian-born Kozlowski managed to survive German labor camps (partly through his musical skills) and eventually escaped to fight with Jewish partisans against the Nazis. Emigrating to Poland after the war, he changed his name (from
Kleinman) and for 23 years composed for and conducted the Polish Army Symphony Orchestra, meanwhile keeping alive the klezmer tradition and surviving occasio...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
84 mins