BBC’s ‘Last Musician Of Auschwitz’ Lands Theatrical Release

EXCLUSIVE: The Last Musician of Auschwitz, the BBC documentary function subsidized by way of Access Entertainment, has landed a UK theatrical free up.

Brit gross sales space Cosmic Cat has secured the rights to distribute the document and plans to have 100 screenings by way of the top of this yr.

Backed by way of The Zone of Interest funder Access, the document, which was once made by way of Two Rivers Media, follows Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who, at the side of different sufferers of Auschwitz, performed and created track amid the terrors of the Holocaust. It unearths how regardless of dwelling in probably the most brutal and dehumanizing of eventualities, prisoners had been secretly composing track while within the camps. The movie additionally examines the SS’s perverse courting with track — forcing prisoners to accomplish for his or her leisure and accompany slave laborers, turning artwork into any other type of torture.

Cosmic Cat plans to pair most of the UK cinema screenings with Q&A classes together with a reside communicate with Jacqueline Luck, daughter of Auschwitz survivor Lela Black née Amiel.

The Last Musician of Auschwitz aired at the BBC in January across the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous loss of life camp, which was once honored international.

Director Toby Trackman mentioned: “We know from the response we have received already that this film can have a profound impact on those who see it, which I hope audiences will find is amplified by experiencing it in cinemas. It has already created a huge amount of discussion which we’re keen to build on, inviting a deeper examination of the themes explored in the film – whether educational, musical or emotional. I really hope to involve interfaith organisations and community groups, to give those conversations as wide a geographic and social footprint as possible.”

Co-EPs Emily Blavatnik and Danny Cohen added: “Preserving the memories, stories and truths of the Holocaust is critically important. It’s something that the Blavatnik Family and Access Industries are profoundly committed to. This documentary and its musical testimonies resonate deeply when experienced in a shared, collective setting, which is key to furthering holocaust remembrance.”

BBC medical doctors being given theatrical runs has been extra commonplace of past due, with contemporary examples together with BACKLASH: The Murder of George Floyd and From Roger Moore, With Love.

The Last Musician of Auschwitz is govt produced by way of Alan Clements for Two Rivers Media. Cohen and Blavatnik are EPs for Access. It is produced by way of Deborah Lee.