2008
November 2008
Sunday 16 November 2008
Sun 16 Nov, 12:50 pm. 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]
Sunday, November 16 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts Premiere In person: Director Jake Boritt, Film Subjects Gabor Boritt, PhD and Judith Borit, MD Budapest to Gettysburg: A Journey to America Director: Jake Boritt Country: USA released 2007 Duration: 73 min. Language: English An authority on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Dr. Gabor Boritt resists probing into his own traumatic history. A Hungarian Jew, now a U.S. citizen, he lived through the Nazi invasion, the Holocaust, Soviet tyranny, and the 1956 Revolution. Director Jake Boritt prevails upon his father to return to Budapest and explore the past that transformed him into a world-renowned American historian. Gabor’s sister Judith, a psychiatrist, joins him on this journey.