Stella: A Life
New England premiere!
Introduced by Karin Oehlenschlaeger, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston. Followed by Q&A with Brandeis University Professor Laura Jockusch, who is currently working on a book about Stella Goldschlag’s life.
Stella, played by the magnetic Paula Beer (Never Look Away, Transit, Frantz), is a vivacious, talented young woman in Nazi Berlin working as a Jazz singer despite the repressive climate and the risk of passing as a non-Jew. When tides turn and she is forced into hiding with her parents, Stella begins working with a passport forger. Exposed and captured by the Gestapo, she faces the most dire and deadly of choices: face deportation to Auschwitz for herself and her parents or become an informant for the Gestapo identifying Jews hiding in Berlin.
This provocative drama is based on the true story of Stella Goldschlag who, from September 1943 until the end of the war, delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo, and was put on trial after the war.
Nominated for four German Film Awards.
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