Special screening of Reading graduate's film 'The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life'
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Reading alumnus Chris Branch (BA Archaeology, 1983) worked as producer on the film ‘The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life' (which is in the running for an Oscar nomination), and he will be introducing the film ahead of Reading Film Theatre's special screening tonight (Wednesday 15 January) at 8pm.
Here is how he describes the film's subject Alice Herz-Sommer's story:
"Emanating from a modest apartment block in northwest London, strains of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms attract a small audience of listeners on the street outside. Few of them realize that the musician, Alice Herz-Sommer, is a renowned concert pianist, a distinguished music scholar and, at 110, the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world.
"To her neighbours she is known simply as The Lady in Number 6. Using interviews with Alice and her close circle of friends, archival footage and family photographs that miraculously survived the Holocaust, Academy Award-winning director Malcolm Clarke, constructs an inspiring parable about the sustaining power of music and extraordinary capacity of the human spirit to triumph over the most unimaginable adversity. At the end of her eleventh decade, Alice's joyful optimism and unquenchable love of life is as inspiring as it is infectious."
There are 70 tickets available and the box office will be open from 7.15pm. Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis.