The Leo Baeck Institute London would like to invite you to a special free online screening at the LBI Film Club starting on Thursday the 17th of October 2024.
We hope that all the film lovers among you will continue to enjoy our selection of interesting and thought-provoking films linked to the immensely rich, diverse and multi-faceted Jewish experience and will relish this latest, gentle, funny and profoundly moving offering in our LBI Film Club programme:
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
(André Schäfer and Jascha Hannover, Germany 2017)
He was one of Hollywood’s greatest writers and directors: Born Samuel Wilder in Galicia, Billy Wilder fled from Berlin as a young reporter via Paris to New York when the Nazis rose to power. Original footage of Wilder, conversations with his colleagues, archive and new film material document an eventful century in history. Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder presents a portrait of a man who was anything but boring.
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder is a TV movie from seasoned directors André Schäfer and Jascha Hannover, who have numerous documentary films under their collective belts. It premiered in Australia, at the Jewish International Film Festival and was subsequently released in Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands.
Directed by: André Schäfer & Jascha Hannover
Produced by: Rieke Brendel
Exec. Producer: Marianne Schäfer
Music by: Ritchie Staringer
Camera by: Andy Lehmannn
Sound by: Max Pellnitz, Armin Siegwarth & Henrik Wellmann
Edited by: Fritz Busse
Documentary, 52 min, 2017, Germany
Languages: English & German with English subtitles
The link below will be active for a limited number of days – from 17/10/24 to 31/10/24.
To watch the film free of charge please click on the following link: https://vimeo.com/video/205194892
and enter the password: sndfilms
Enjoy the film!
We wish to thank Sydney Neter at SND Films for supporting us and organizing access to this film for our viewers.
